Archive for the ‘erlang’ Category

Is IronErlang (or Erlang.NET) a Good Idea?

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

I am kind of between projects right now so I am wondering what I should do next. I really like functional programming, and in particular languages like Erlang, Haskell and F#. So I started to wonder if I should make an Erlang compiler for the .NET runtime. I like Erlang for ...

Webcast about Erlang by Joe Armstrong

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I recently discovered this webcast called "Erlang - software for a concurrent world" by Joe Armstrong. It is recorded at a JAOO conference. Yes, I wrote "a"... I can't find any info on which one it is but i strongly suspect it is from either London, Sydney or Brisbane in ...

The future of programming - a brief look at two functional programming languages

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

I have been a software developer for more than 8 years now, and all this time I have been developing software in imperative languages like C++, Java and C#. During the years I have occasionally had a taste of functional programming in the language Haskell. The interest has never been ...

First impression of Erlang

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

During the christmas holidays i had the opportunity to sit down and investigate the functional programming language Erlang, and i was not disappointed at all. I had heard some rumors about this particular language from various sources, particularly when i was at the JAOO conference in September 2007. Now, there are ...