Object Oriented Programming, this is the art of hiding side effects. If you can do it successfully you can write this in program. If you do it unsucc… - Joe Armstrong

Meta-Programming Erlang is not really easy because of the way the trees are parsed.

We wanted to build big distributed systems, fault tolerant systems. The sort of systems that everybody wants to build today. It's not just about telecom. At the time it was just about telecom but now, it's not just about telecom. Virtually, every big systems you want to build has to do these things. You want to connect millions of people and you don't want if the system fail in anyway, you don't want these individual transaction to be broken. We started to working on that, way back. That sort of way we got Erlang.

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