Some simple thoughts on Erlang
Our reading group on Bainbridge Island has been working its way through Programming Erlang. Actually we’re technically not done yet, but since I spent a fair amount of time on the ferry recently, I...
View ArticleScalability != concurrency
Sam Ruby is writing about Russell Beattie writing about Java and Erlang. Russell thinks Java needs an overhaul. I think that Java has reached the point where technical, community, and business forces...
View ArticleThe Erlang community
Matt Croydon Didn’t agree with my commentary on the Erlang community, and he’s partially right. I shouldn’t have said “we need a community” because there is an Erlang community, and I knew that. I have...
View ArticleErlang == CGI?
Jay Nelson, in the comments to Damien Katz’s Lisp as Blub: The two relevant issues are system granularity and garbage collector behavior (if it is related to memory and garbage collection). Erlang...
View ArticleNotes on A History of Erlang
Joe Armstrong wrote a paper for last year’s HOPL-III conference on the history of Erlang. For some reason, I didn’t get a paper copy of those proceedings, and was too busy to notice their absence....
View ArticleErlang Factory 2009
I spent Thursday and Friday of last week at the Erlang Factory in San Francisco (although the event was actually in Palo Alto). Why did I go? I’ve written about Erlang in this space before. Erlang is...
View ArticleCouchCamp 2010
I spent a few days last week at CouchCamp, the first mass in-person gathering of the community around CouchDB. There were around 80 people from all over the world, which is pretty good turnout. The...
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