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25th September 2008 - Link Blog

Reia. The most common complaint I see about Erlang is the syntax. Reia is a Python-style scripting language (with a dash of Ruby) that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. Looks promising.

Posted 25th September 2008 at 6:12 pm

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