Concurrent program languages for Chat and Twitter-like Apps.

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Published on 2010-03-12T02:53:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 2:57 UTC
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I need to create a simple Chat system like facebook chat and a twitter-like app. What is the best concurrent program languages in this case ?

Erlang, Haskell, Scala or anything else ?

Thanks ^_^

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