Erlang

Amazon SimpleDB is running Erlang

December 18th, 2007 / Development in a Blink

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 […]

Concurrency in F# – Part III – Erlang Style Message Passing

October 26th, 2007 / Development in a Blink

Robert Pickering post. A happy side effect of this is that other .NET languages would find this class really easy to use too.

Amazon’s Grid on Demand

August 23rd, 2007

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!

Go Erlang!

August 10th, 2007

Here is a gushing post on the future of Erlang by one of the GOF, Ralph Johnson.
 

Erlang posts

August 9th, 2007 / Development in a Blink

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 […]

Programming Erlang is Shipping

July 17th, 2007 / Development in a Blink

via Dave Thomas–Pragmatic Programmer

Ruby NYC talks available online

May 13th, 2007

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.