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The Middle man is the thing that imposed Erlang only in the Erlang world. If people try to talk to each other, the complexity of the program is O(N²). But, if we put middle men here, this turns the complexity to O(N).

— Joe Armstrong

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This is a thing that really scares me, are people developing large applications that they don’t understand.

"Messages take time", and they propagate through space, there’s no guarantee it gets there.

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Up to now, declarative programming languages such as Prolog or ML have not been used for real-time applications.

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