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The golden era?
If you haven't taken a look at Erlang, you really should make an effort. It's an education: I find the entire "Your programs are guaranteed to suck, so best we handle the errors" [I am paraphrasing. A lot.] ethos particularly refreshing.
Which is why I ...
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Is it a Mac thing?
First bits
As I said in a previous post, I'm learning Erlang via Joe Armstrong's book: Programming Erlang. This post is probably only meaningful if you caught the same error - if not, and you read it to the end, I tip my hat to you!
The error
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Erlang: Intuitive, fast, and neat.
Following my post Which language to learn next I picked up the pdf book Programming Erlang and have devoted and hour or two a day for the last week to learning Erlang.
One of the early concurrent programming exercises goes like this:
Write a ring benchmark. Create N processes in ...
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