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		yxhuvud on June 21, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debunking the Erlang and Haskell hype for servers Which is true if and only if the problem can be solved at all by a centralized system. This is not true for the major use cases of erlang.

cperciva on June 21, 2010 [–]

Of course. If you need your system to be distributed from the start, these benchmarks are irrelevant.

But most people aren't writing telecommunication software and can handle having a few single points of failure.

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