Comments on: Erlang

By: links for 2008-06-06 at Topper’s Blog

links for 2008-06-06 at Topper’s Blog — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:33:00 +0000

[...] Open Kosmaczewski – Erlang (tags: erlang howto blog install getting started gettingstarted) [...]

By: links for 2007-12-21, or so says Harry Love

links for 2007-12-21, or so says Harry Love — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:18:19 +0000

[...] Open Kosmaczewski – Erlang (tags: erlang tutorials) Tags: Found Objects [...]

By: Tim Dysinger

Tim Dysinger — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:45:37 +0000

Sapir-Whorf, baby! Language expands the mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis

By: Steve Walker

Steve Walker — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:31:01 +0000

I’ve just started looking into erlang also, looks like a great language for the multiple cores that have become so prevalent. You may be interested in fuzed also, a rails/yaws integration gem. It’s still alpha I believe, but I wonder if it will become the preferred stack for rails at some point.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:40:09 +0000

Scala is a poor man’s Erlang.

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:13:47 +0000

By: Ricardo Herrmann

Ricardo Herrmann — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:59:15 +0000

Of course, I forgot mentioning Scala Actors, a subset of Erlang-style concurrency for the JVM, else I’d be missing the point of commenting on this post ;-)

By: Ricardo Herrmann

Ricardo Herrmann — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:56:00 +0000

The motivation for learning Scala comes from the following:

* Once you learn a more expressive languages you won’t go back to “code as usual”
* Everyone around you uses Java and you don’t have the time to rewrite the damn libraries and frameworks
* Scala’s mapping of functional programming paradigms to the JVM seem efficient enough
* It has XML built-in into the language, basically for making it easier to sell it as enterprise-friendly ;-)

Although there’s also CAL, from BusinessObjects … “Haskell” for the JVM, and in active development. Seems like it does things in a novel way, not even being being a port of the spineless tagless G-machine to a JVM as a first Java backend for GHC would be expected … haven’t checked these topics enough though.

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:59:28 +0000

the_dormant and Ricardo: you've convinced me! Scala will be the one for 2008 :) I think I'll start by reading n8han's article on it.

By: Ricardo Herrmann

Ricardo Herrmann — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:07:34 +0000

Sounds like fun … my turn:

1980: Born without a clue about programming
1986: MSX Basic
1993: z80 assembly
1994: x86 assembly, QBasic
1997: Serious x86 assembly (it all really starts here: protected mode, MMX, FPU)
1998: Tried to learn Pascal by myself without success
1999: C, C++
2000: Java, Perl, Bash (started working)
2001: ASP, PHP
2002: C++ for real (template metaprogramming included)
2003: Octave
2004: OO Perl, Python, Ruby (all look the same)
2005: (Bored to death, dealing with too much web programming, way more than should be considered healthy, so no new languages this year)
2006: Prolog (hmm, there’s a different world out there)
2007: Haskell, Erlang and Common Lisp (the year of the enlightenment)
2008 (expected): Scala, Oz, Curry, maybe Epigram and Coq too (and be exhausted and wise by then)

Basic has left my neurons a long time ago by now … Dijkstra was wrong ;-)