From: James Britt Date: 2007-03-03T05:00:11+09:00 Subject: Re: [ADV] Erlang book is in beta... Dave Thomas wrote: > I love Ruby--I've done all my serious (and most of my not-so-serious) > work in Ruby since 2000. > > But that doesn't mean that I think it's the only solution--the universal > language. There are always going to be areas where other tools excel. > > One of those areas is concurrent programming. As the world moves to > multi-core processors, and as we start to write applications distributed > across intra- and internets, we need to find better ways to exploit all > this extra power. If you've ever tried to write concurrent programs in > Java, or even Ruby, you know the challenges. > > Erlang is designed from the ground up to help programmers create highly > concurrently (read thousands or processes), highly reliable (read > 99.99999% uptime) applications. It's a real world language--it is used > to write telephone switches, banking applications, trading systems...you > name it. > > I like it for that reason. I also like it because it's different--very > different. It makes me think about problems in a totally different way. > > We were lucky to get Joe Armstrong, one of the inventors of Erlang, to > write our latest beta book, Programming Erlang. > Sweet. Any plans for a Haskell book? -- James Britt "The truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents." - William Penn.