Erlang is a general-purpose, garbage-collected programming language and runtime environment, with built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.
Erlang is a general-purpose functional programming language and runtime environment. It has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson. Erlang is open source and available for download on GitHub.
We are going to write a concurrent program using Clojure, which is going to extract keywords from a huge amount of incoming mail which will be cross-checked with a database.
One of my teammates has suggested to use Erlang to write this program.
Here…
I have been trying to learn Erlang and have been running into some problems with ending lines in functions and case statements.
When do I use a semicolon (;), comma (,), or period inside my functions or case statements?
How do I concatenate two binaries in Erlang?
For example, let's say I have:
B1 = <<1,2>>.
B2 = <<3,4>>.
How do I concatenate B1 and B2 to create a binary B3 which is <<1,2,3,4>>?
The reason I am asking this is because I am writing code to encode a…
If you've bought into the functional programming paradigm, the chances are that you like both Erlang and Haskell. Both have purely functional cores and other goodness such as lightweight threads that make them a good fit for a multicore world. But…
I'm brand new to Erlang. How do you do modulo (get the remainder of a division)? It's % in most C-like languages, but that designates a comment in Erlang.
Several people answered with rem, which in most cases is fine. But I'm revisiting this because…
I'm interested in looking at Erlang and want to follow the path of least resistance in getting up and running.
At present, I'm planning on installing Erlang R12B-3 and Erlide (Eclipse plugin). This is largely a Google-result-based decision.…
Erlang is known for being able to support MANY lightweight processes; it can do this because these are not processes in the traditional sense, or even threads like in P-threads, but threads entirely in user space.
This is well and good (fantastic…
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I'm new to erlang, and considering using it for a scalable architecture. I've found many proponents of the platform touting its reliability and fault tolerance.
However, I'm struggling to understand exactly how fault-tolerance is…
Currently trying to understand the "^" operator in Elixir.
From the website:
The pin operator ^ can be used when there is no interest in rebinding
a variable but rather in matching against its value prior to the
match:
Source -…
I'd like to know what exactly a method name is in elixir:
array = [1,2,3]
module_name = :lists
method_name = :nth # this not working
module_name.method_name(1, array) # error, undef function lists.method_name/2
module_name.nth(1,…
I am looking for an easy-to-learn Actor library or framework for Python 2.x. I have tried Candygram and Twisted but I did not like them. I'd like something that will be easy to extend to suppero Greenlet (= stackless python).
Candygram is too…
I'm quite new to that functional programming paradigm, but so far I like it. Since I'm into game development, I want to try it out in writing some games in purely functional programming style. I don't mind the language - be it Erlang, Haskell, Lisp,…
I would like to build an Erlang/OTP-based system which solves an 'embarassingly parrallel' problem.
I have already read/skimmed through:
Learn You Some Erlang;
Programming Erlang (Armstrong);
Erlang Programming (Cesarini);
Erlang/OTP in Action.
I…
