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.
I've been checking out the Nitrogen Project which is supposed to be the most mature web development framework for Erlang.
Erlang, as a language, is extremely impressive. However, with regards to Nitrogen, what I am not too keen about is using…
What's the best way to integrate Erlang and python?
We need to call python functions in Erlang and call Erlang functions in python. At this moment we are trying to use SOAP as a intermediate layer between these two languages, but we have a lot of…
I recently discovered Erlang and am now working my way through a couple of tutorials. By now I'm looking forward to actually implement something as a hobby project. I'm not really interested in yet another chat server. I would like to code something…
In the Erlang interactive shell you can bind variables to values. If I would like to clear everything and start from scratch without exiting the session and starting a new one, how do I do that?
And if I just wanted to re-use a single variable, is…
How can I convert a timestamp (number of milliseconds since 1 Jan 1970..., aka epoch) to Date or DateTime format in Erlang? Something like {Year,Month,Day}.
I think Erlang-style concurrency is the answer to exponential growth of core count. You can kind of fake it with other main stream languages. But the solutions always leave me wanting. I am not willing to give up multi-paradigm programming…
What does the question mark in Erlang syntax mean?
For example:
Json = ?record_to_json(artist, Artist).
The full context of the source can be found here.
I have ejabberd setup to be the xmpp server between mobile apps, ie. custom iPhone and Android app.
But I've seemingly run into a limitation of the way ejabberd handles online status's.
Scenario:
User A is messaging User B via their mobiles.
User B…
Apart from the fact that =:= prevents unwanted integer casts:
1> 1=:=1.0.
false
What is the advantage of using =:= with terms in general?
Better performance?
After watching the Pragmatic Studio screen casts on Erlang, the last video on Supervisors mentioned that in order for a supervisor to get a notification about one of its children so it can properly restart it, the child should register with…
