Sunday, 6 September 2015

New Kids on the Block

Recently wired.com carried an article that showed how Facebook's developers  turned to a 25 year old language Haskell to improve their anti-spam solution. The article turns the spotlight on a few new (..and old) languages that are being used to solve computing problem that mainstream languages like Java, C, C++ etc are unable to address satisfactorily. One of the worlds most efficient messaging application WhatsApp is written in a little known language - ErLang but that's another blog topic.

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/facebooks-new-anti-spam-system-hints-future-coding/

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