On 2014-03-11 at 22:23:59 -0500, Mark Allen wrote: > Cool- looking forward to it!
Thanks for the talk! I really enjoyed it. I had some thoughts about Erlang — relating it to my experience with Prolog (even though many of the semantics are different). A couple of weeks ago, I was building a machine learning simulation in Prolog and towards the end, I found that building all my data structures out of lists and compound terms was slowly getting in the way as I was refactoring my design. This is probably because I wasn't thinking far enough ahead, but I thought that having an object system would help keep some things manageable. I came across another language that uses Prolog as a backend like Erlang used to: Logtalk [^1]. I was wondering if Erlang had anything similar. All I could find was that Joe Armstrong doesn't like OO [^2] and an old project called ETC [^3]. As far as I have read, in Erlang, one usually models each process as an object with interfaces defined by modules. Is this correct? [^1]: <http://logtalk.org/> [^2]: <http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_sucks> [^3]: <https://code.google.com/p/ect/> Cheers, - Zaki > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:12 PM, "G. Wade Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:26:21 -0700 (PDT) > > Mark Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I would really like to run through it with a group of people who are > >> truly new to Erlang and see with "new eyes" what I'm trying to > >> communicate. > > > > It's sounding like we have a new plan. > > > > Mark can do Introducing Erlang and we'll fill the remaining time with > > lightning talks. (Some subset of the three we have, or any others that > > want to volunteer.) > > > > Looks like I need to change the announcement again.<grin/> > > > > G. Wade > > > >> Mark > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:14 PM, Todd Rinaldo <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> I kinda like the last one. > >> > >> > >> On Mar 11, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Mark Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> The last is a workshop "bring your laptop" type-thing > >>> > >>> > >>> The other talks could be anywhere from 10-50 minutes long > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:21 AM, G. Wade Johnson > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:02:56 -0700 (PDT) > >>> Mark Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I can give talks on one or more of the following topics Thursday: > >>>> > >>>> * Functional list operations in Perl (map, filter, fold) > >>>> * Using roles for object composition when building Perl web clients > >>>> * Packaging Perl applications using Docker > >>>> * Introducing Erlang (a new side project I'm working on to get > >>>> programmers who have some experience up and running with Erlang > >>>> and a non-trivial application under an hour.) > >>>> > >>>> Do any of those sound interesting? > >>> > >>> Are these full presentations, or lightning talks? (Some look big and > >>> others could be quicker.) > >>> > >>> G. Wade > >>> > >>> > >>>> Mark > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:49 AM, G. Wade Johnson > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:14:24 -0500 > >>>> Todd Rinaldo <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> All, > >>>>> > >>>>> My original offer was to do a 5 minute lightning talk on > >>>>> Mail::SpamAssassin. I do not actually have content for a full > >>>>> meeting. > >>>> > >>>> Actually, so far I have 3 lightning talks (including yours) lined > >>>> up. > >>>> > >>>> 1. Todd: Email SPAM > >>>> 2. Reini: Global Destruction > >>>> 3. Wade: Tweaking gcode files > >>>> > >>>> Come on people, we can get a few more talks lined up. It's only 5 > >>>> minutes. > >>>> > >>>> Last time we did the lightning talks, we had requests from the > >>>> audience to fill out some of the time. But a starting list of talks > >>>> would definitely make things easier. > >>>> > >>>>> It sounds like we have no talk on Thursday. I propose a social > >>>>> meeting. Who's up for it. I got sick so couldn't attend when we > >>>>> tried Empire Cafe last time. How did that venue work out? > >>>> > >>>> As I recall, spacing was kind of tight at Empire Cafe (and the > >> construction on Westheimer made getting there loads of fun). > >>>> > >>>> G. Wade > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, > >>> but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne > >>> Stroustrup > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Houston mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > >>> Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > >> > >> Todd Rinaldo > >> [email protected] > > > > > > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste > > good with ketchup. -- C. 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