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		skydhash 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do we need modules at all? (2011) It's all related to naming. You can refer to a symbol with auth/guard/token/authenticate or auth_guard_token_authenticate, and what matters is the amount of characters you type sometimes. Also you can have encapsulation with the first option. Smalltalk have the same live experience, but do have modules, because it makes editing easier and encapsulation is nice for readability and clarity.

bjourne 4 months ago [–]

No, neither Smalltalk nor any of the Lisp environments that purport to support hot code reloading have the same facilities the Erlang VM has.

skydhash 4 months ago | [–]

Concurrency and tasks supervision is orthogonal to modules/packages.

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