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> In fact, Erlang was so simple I was able to read it before I even knew what it was. I learned it by digging into the RabbitMQ source code.

No matter what language I'm programming (including elixir), my pseudocode in design documents is always written in a pidgin erlang. It's simple, direct, discourages side-effects and encourages composability. Its building blocks (and syntax) also make it easy to describe abstract data types and schemas.



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