I've heard many anecdotes and claims about how many lines of code are saved when you write in Erlang instead of [C++/other language]. I'm happy to report that I now have first-hand experience and some data to share.

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Last night I gave an “Intro to Erlang” talk at a London Hackspace meetup. I did a quick audience survey first: About 75% did “web programming” (ruby,python,php,etc).  Around 30% admitted to regularly using C/C++/Java or desktop/mobile app development.  Less than...

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