Writing Ruby code for a living, building a company in a foreign country, learning a human foreign language (Spanish) and a computer foreign language (Erlang) on the side hasn’t left a lot of time for blogging about Erlang. But in the past month we were able to spend a few minutes w/Joe Armstrong, creator of [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Hacker News full of Erlang articles
Hacker News’s author was complaining yesterday about a spike in traffic due to a ‘fluff piece’ on a woman building a blog to get hired by twitter. His solution – asking the faithful readership to post only Erlang stories to drive away ‘mainstream’ readers. It worked to drive away less hacky-readers, but probably only attracted [...]
Tic-Tac-Toe In Erlang
Neal over at nealabq.com has a long tutorial on Erlang Tic-Tac-Toe, which is incidentally the first program I wrote when learning Erlang. Programmers may want to take a look at the tutorial, but perhaps the most interesting aspect of the tutorial is the way he takes the problem space and shrinks it down by analyzing [...]