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		jlgreco on Aug 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rewriting a large production system in Go Not particularly. They are basically just both languages that were inspired by CSP; the similarities don't go much deeper.

Dn_Ab on Aug 19, 2013 [–]

A minor correction. Erlang was inspired by actors while Go is inspired by CSP. Both models share a lot but have a few distinguishing factors in how they handle communication. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proces..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model_and_process_calculi

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