On my C distaste

I don’t remember where I read it, but I just recalled a quote I read a long time ago. It went something like:

Say you need a status report from a fellow object. In message passing languages (all scripting languages, smalltalk, objc…), you might ask for this report from that object, equivalent to maybe making a call to it, or sending it an email. The C++ equivalent, however, would be like doing open brain surgery on the object, sticking a probe in the open brain, and analyzing the electrical signals in order to find the answer.

The original was phrased better… Anyhow, it was Joe Armstrong that got me thinking about this again; I’m very very curious about Erlang and are feeling very much like implementing a game server in that language, maybe an mmorpg style game, in order to test the concurrency and scalability.

For wishlist: Programming Erlang