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Erlang vs Rails processes FUD

Murphees Rant - Werner Schuster - June 07, 2007

Wow… I just read a uniquely silly piece of FUD in Is DHH right about concurrency?   Actually, the text is OK, I guess. It wonders whether Erlang’s shared nothing is better than Rails shared nothing approach. After all: Rails allows you to make use…

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Metaprogramming: Erlang macros from ground up

Murphees Rant - Werner Schuster - April 26, 2007

So you want to know how a macro system is built from the ground up? No, not the bad kind of macro… I mean a LISPish type of macro. Philip Robinson has a great series explaining how he built different macro implementations in Erlang. There‘s…

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EclipseCon, Erlang, Early flights, and ERRRRussssell Brand

Murphees Rant - Werner Schuster - March 03, 2007

Hey… where did that infinite group of monkeys go? I hired them to keep this blog filled with wisdom, but seems like they got a better gig. Anyway, I‘m off to San Francisco to EclipseCon07. At least I hope I am; the wind here seems…

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Erlang Pattern Matching for Network Programming

Murphees Rant - Werner Schuster - August 28, 2006

Be sure to read this series on Network programming with Erlang. The first part gives a short intro to Pattern Matching in Erlang. I‘ve been looking at Erlang recently, and while it‘s mostly known for the concurrency features (message passing), I was quite pleased to…

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