erlang

Alvaro Videla has written up a response to Wade Arnold's Scala's easier than PHP post and some of the points he doesn't agree with him on.

Alvaro Videla has submitted a new post he's written up combining PHP and Erlang yet again, but this time he's using it to just store key/value pairs rather than for session data.

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• Brendon's Blog: 10 PHP functions you (probably) never use
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Alvaro Videla has a different sort of suggestion for storing the sessions for your application - use Erlang.

John Hughes talks about his experience with Erlang vs. Haskell in an InfoQ Interview.

While the discussions about strict vs lazy and dynamic vs static typing are interesting he raises a good question for the LtU crowd at the end:

In this recent post to his blog Till Klampaeckel starts off a series directed at PHP developers looking to make the move from the MySQL relational database structure over to the world of CouchDB.

A short comparison (plus some links) of Erlang and Clojure solutions to the simple problem of running a counter in a separate thread.

Sometimes taking an app down for debugging purposes is just not an option.

Computerworld: "What's behind the name Erlang?
Either it's short for "Ericsson Language" or it's named after the Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang.

We have never revealed which of these is true, so you'll have to keep guessing!"

I think one of the better ideas I've had on this blog is my Questions Five Ways series.

For each post, I'll ask a guiding question of five leading hackers, some from the Ruby community and some from outside it.

So far the questions were about concurrency, code reading, and static code analysis & testing.

I understand Pat is interested in hearing suggestion for future topics.

I find the discussion about concurrency interesting.