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An Introduction to Erlang

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - September 13, 2007

An Introduction to Erlang. Erlang gets the ONLamp tutorial treatment from Gregory Brown.

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How to say big numbers in English: Common Lisp

Ruslan Spivak - September 12, 2007

When i was describing notations and representation of numbers in Erlang(and Python) i forgot to mention very cool feature of format function in Common Lisp, with which i got acquainted exploring highly-recommended Practical Common Lisp book. This feature is ~R directive which knows how to…

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Erlang for Python programmers: Part I

Ruslan Spivak - September 09, 2007

Let’s skim over data types in Erlang today. Check previous tutorial for introduction. Numbers In Erlang there are two types of numeric literals: integers and floats. In Python there are four of them: plain integers(usually called just integers), long integers, floating point numbers, and imaginary…

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CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - September 03, 2007

CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS. CouchDB is a fascinating project—an Erlang powered non-relational database with a JSON API that lets you define “viewsâ€� (really computed tables) based on JavaScript functions that execute using map/reduce. Damien Katz, the main developer currently works for MySQL and used to work on Lotus Notes.

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Erlang for Python programmers: Intro

Ruslan Spivak - August 27, 2007

I assume you have already installed Erlang on your system and are able to run erlang shell either from command line or from within Emacs (C-c C-z). This is a view of Eshell from my Emacs: Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.5.2 [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] Eshell…

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Erlang man pages in Emacs

Ruslan Spivak - August 19, 2007

Well it’s actually as simple as running M-x man RET module_name RET in minibuffer. I’m using Erlang setup from rpm on FC7 and by default man pages are located under /usr/lib/erlang/man/ so to use above command in minibuffer you must make sure you have your…

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Htmlize your Erlang code buffer

Ruslan Spivak - August 19, 2007

Recently I’ve begun to make blog posts and now want to have highlighting of Erlang’s code(actually any code , be it Python, Lisp, etc) in my posts. I’m using The One True Editor and it goes without saying that i want to convert my erlang…

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More about binary search in Erlang

Ruslan Spivak - August 17, 2007

In my previous post My Erlang binary search I’ve implemented binary search in Python and Erlang as small exercise for myself after reading Half-baked Ideas blog post. Good article pointing to specifics of implementation of that algorithm in Erlang was posted on Erlane’s blog which…

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My Erlang binary search

Ruslan Spivak - August 15, 2007

I was lurking and watching Erlang quite some time during this year and finally decided give it a shot after Programming Erlang was released. I ordered book in pdf format to rest assured i’ll get it in fastest possible way. After i read book a…

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A quote from Ralph Johnson

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - August 08, 2007

Erlang fits all the characteristics of an OO system, even though sequential Erlang is a functional language, not an OO language - Ralph Johnson

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