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Erlang User Conference 2008 in Stockholm

Din Björn - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - November 15, 2008

I visited this year’s Erlang User Conference in Älvsjö, Stockholm, Sweden and was very impressed by the organizers, sponsors, speakers and the nice Swedish people in general.Session I:Francesco Cesarini on ProTestMelinda Tóth (?) on automated syntax manipulationDr. Bjarne Däcker organized the conference and even shot…

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The tattered history of OOP

Din Björn - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - June 04, 2008

Over at ZDNet, there is an article titled “The tattered history of OOP”, which seems to say that Smalltalk’s creator Alan Kay was originally after scalable systems and wanted something which reminds surprisingly of Erlang:Object primitives were used to parse messages sent to objects, and…

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OOP and COP

Din Björn - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - May 01, 2008

Today I read the article Erlang for the OO-minded on the MUE - Embrace Change blog. Its author sees Erlang processes as kind of objects and writes about similarities.Encapsulation is a good thing.To me OOP is a nice way of organizing programs. An object of…

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