Amazon has released to beta a new web service. Charles Ying, after being under NDA, blogs some details. Amazon is running Erlang. Greg Wilson, author of Practical Parallel Programming, picks up on the post and says this about pure functional languages: I don’t believe that PFLs make non-trivial parallel programs easier to write. I don’t believe they […]
Robert Pickering post. A happy side effect of this is that other .NET languages would find this class really easy to use too.
Amazon are pioneering a rent-a-grid service, called EC2 which looks extremely interesting. I hope to spend some time playing with it this weekend - sounds great for distributed Erlang testing!
Here is a gushing post on the future of Erlang by one of the GOF, Ralph Johnson.
Sam Ruby posts Erlang: First Impressions comparing Erlang syntax to Ruby, Python, JSON, C and some more. No XSLT style weighting heuristics nor Prolog style backtracking is performed. Sal Mangano offers up an Erlang Example. The program’s purpose is to convert a file from the Moby Words project that contains English Parts of Speech information to an Erlang representation. Worth […]
via Dave Thomas–Pragmatic Programmer
Last week I attended the Ruby NYC get-together (Doug blogged about it) - the talks from that night including Luke Melia on Ruby.NET and Tatum’s talk on Erlang are up at MotionBox. Worth a watch if you’re into that sort of thing.
