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If you want to to add and remove fields on the fly, or if you don't know what fields you'll have until runtime, you should use dicts rather than records.

whenever using record, how and not (by choosing dict instead)

[…] the recorded sessions from last year’s Commercial Users of Functional Programming are now up in conveniently viewable form on Google Video.

Erlang, F#, ...

The power of OTP comes from the fact that properties such as fault tolerance, scalability, dynamic-code upgrade, and so on, can be provided by the behavior itself. In other words, the writer of the callback does not have to worry about [those things] because this is provided by the behavior.

Over the last weekend I wanted to have a go at porting Oliver Steele's string lambda into Erlang. And here is the result ..

functional programming beauty