Posts Tagged ‘Erlang’

This is the third and final part of a series about Erlang.

Part 1: Processes
Part 2: Messages and Pattern matching
Part 3: Lists, Strings, Binaries, Tuples

Erlang/OTP didn’t come out of thin air. Quite the opposite – seldom you see a language and a platform where the implementation mirrors the intention that closely.

Lists, Strings, Binaries, Tuples: what is [...]


This is part 2 of a series about Erlang. The final part 3 will be published next week here.

Part 1: Processes
Part 2: Messages and Pattern matching
Part 3: Lists, Strings, Binaries, Tuples

Erlang/OTP didn’t come out of thin air. Quite the opposite – seldom you see a language and a platform where the implementation mirrors the intention [...]


This is part 1 of a series about Erlang. Parts 2 and 3 will be published in the next weeks here.

Part 1: Processes
Part 2: Messages and Pattern matching
Part 3: Lists, Strings, Binaries, Tuples

Erlang/OTP didn’t come out of thin air. Quite the opposite – seldom you see a language and a platform where the implementation mirrors [...]


Ever done Erlang? Now I wondered how flexible ruby would be and if an erlang style pattern matcher can be done in ruby. As it turns out, I came pretty close:
You might recognize this:

m = matching! [ 1, [ :a, 2 ], 3 ] do
on [ a ] [...]


Hi guys, I just want to tell you that I am off that blog, for now. The reason is this cute sidekick. And this being a somewhat non-Railsy project there is not much of a point in writing about it here. In the meantime this blog might get somewhat quiet, but I expect to be [...]


It is a bit early, but still. Rails is going to turn 4! Candles, Fireworks, and everything!
And yes: Rails 2.3 is somewhat announced. And the fanbase rolls on the floor out of sheer excitement: rails now has :having! Whoa! Big news!
Justin: The :having feature is really nice because my :group options are really ugly [...]


Now what does a Berlin based ruby coder does between Christmas and New Years? You might bet on a short trip to “Nothing to Hide (25C3)”, but this time you are dead wrong.
Instead said coder went onto a trip into the Erlang realm, and came up with a native JSON parser for Erlang. Which [...]