From: Kevin Jackson <foamdino@...>
Date: 2007-03-03T14:00:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [ADV] Erlang book is in beta...

> > 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.
> >
> > The book isn't being officially announced until next week, but I
> > thought the Ruby community might appreciate an early look.
> >
> >      http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/jaerlang/

my +1 also - I've worked through the Erlang tutorials but haven't
quite grasped it properly - so thanks for the timely 'release'

Kev