Tag: erlang

  • Damien Katz has more interesting comments about Erlang’s “ugliness”. (hat-tip @Folknology)

  • Here’s a question … why is Erlang so ugly? I don’t mean that in a pejorative way (not much, anyway). I mean, I really love what it does. I’m totally impressed with Erlang’s power and simplicity. I’m writing simulations which are about a quarter of the size of the Python equivalent. So this is not…

  • And I thought I was ambitious, trying to write a programming language! My friend Oli has decided to reinvent programming as we know it. Details are still trickling out via his web-site : Semantic Programming. And I’m in frenzied skype conversation with him, trying to figure out what it’s all about. In outline, it starts…

  • Paul Graham’s Arc Challenge . Examples in Lisp, Smalltalk Seaside, Ruby, Perl and Python (using generators instead of continuations) And an Erlang response.

  • Here’s an interesting question (after reading this). Why does anyone want to write “large” programs? Everyone knows large programs are difficult to build and maintain. Want we want is *small* programs that happen to be powerful (do a lot) and scale over large numbers of users. Is there any reason to think that “large” program…