Archive for November, 2008

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 ...

Data Parallelism in Functional Programming

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

In this small article I will show you how you can use the power of functional programming to write data structures for parallel processing that scales well on any number of cores. What is one of the primary concerns for programmers right now? Writing high performance code that scales well regardless ...

The Programmers Dilemma

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

So what is all this talking about “automatic testing”? I know my code work so I don’t have to write some “test case” just to verify that; A complete waste of time! Just kidding. No one in their right mind would say that they write bugfree code. One of the tools ...