Ozone, thanks for your talk on Friday night, it was pretty inspiring. I played a bit with the Erlang tute on Saturday: nice language, wacky syntax.
Here's the Erlang moofie on Google video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5830318882717959520 would you happen to know of / have an Ogg Theora version? ;-) cheers, kfish. On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:09:59PM +1000, Andre Pang wrote: > Hi all, > > For those of you that aren't on the main SLUG list (like me), I'll be > giving a talk on the Erlang programming language at SLUG this Friday > (i.e. 28th of July). > > For those who haven't heard of it, Erlang is a programming language > based on the functional programming paradigm that's targeted at > solving one major problem: concurrency. It has a number of very cool > features that makes it extremely compelling for writing large servers > that are required to be high-performing, have ridiculous availability > (99.999% uptime or better), can scale well to deal with huge load, > and can be distributed (even geographically). In addition, since it > has an industrial focus, it has quite a reasonable standard library > that a lot of other more academic languages lack (such as Ocaml and > Haskell), including things such as a full SSH implementation. > > I'll also be covering issues about concurrency and why it's going to > be a massive problem for programmers in the next ten to twenty years, > and briefly cover some issues about the Jabber and XMPP instant > messaging protocols and how you can use Jabber chat clients and > servers as an application platform. > > Erlang is quite a different beast from traditional application > development languages such as C/C++/Java, and also takes a different > approach to solving problems than the plethora of the dynamic > languages such as Python, Perl and Ruby. Even if you don't use > Erlang, you'll hopefully be able to take away a lot of good practices > from the talk and merge them into your own project (such as > preferring message passing for concurrency vs shared mutable state), > and gain a better understanding of systems-level debates such as why > userland thread scheduling is actually useful. > > Anyway, come along! I'll even be showing some bits of the infamous > Erlang movie that's guaranteed to make even the geekiest of you > shrivel in horror... > > > -- > % Andre Pang : trust.in.love.to.save <http://www.algorithm.com.au/> > > _______________________________________________ coders mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
