i actually got myself a copy of Joe's book recently, its a damn good read imho.
I'd like to see a livecoding erlang application, "distributed
multi-user composition" or something like that :)
james
On 9/11/07, zuzu <sean.zuzu_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been interested in Erlang for several years now (especially
> vis-a-vis Carl Hewitt et al.'s Actor Model), but was intimidated by
> the syntax and jargon until Joe Armstrong wrote his new (and
> incredibly approachable) book 'Programming Erlang' -- published by the
> Pragmatic Programmers you linked to. Armstrong also wrote his 2003
> doctoral thesis on Erlang, which he published online: "Making reliable
> distributed systems in the presence of software errors".
>
>
> On 7/23/07, mcburton <mcburton_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I came across this on one of my Erlang blogs:
> > http://bc.tech.coop/blog/070713.html " Live Code Update in Erlang"
> > Fairly technical and not directly applicable, but lots of good food for thought.
> > I am in the midst of learning Erlang, it is a very powerful language
> > with the notion of live coding built into it. Distributed concurrent
> > performances is a possibility. It bends my mind in pleasing ways.
> > Anyone else played with Erlang?
> >
> > here is a quick intro:
> > http://pragdave.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/04/a_first_erlang_.html
> >
> > mcb
> >
>
Received on Tue Sep 11 2007 - 04:10:50 BST