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Introduction to the Open Telecom Platform @ spawn_link

I’ve recently started dabbling with Erlang and one of the things that I still have to fully grok is OTP. The Open Telecom Platform (OTP) is, allegedly, one of the strongest selling points of Erlang as it provides you with a structure to create fault tolerant, highly available applications … for free. Go figure.
In the [...]

Posted 06 September 2008 § programming ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

C# scopes — am I missing something here?

Last time I checked, the scope of a variable drew the line after which it ceased to exist. For instance, in Java, when you defined a variable in a for loop, the minute the loop was over the variable ceased to exist…

Posted 29 August 2008 § programming ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Baby steps

I’ve been taking my first steps in Erlang during these past few days. Of course, being the busy boy that I am, when I say the past few days I mean that I’ve managed to fiddle with it for about 1-2 hours.
At first sight I have to say that it is rather nice to get [...]

Posted 10 August 2008 § programming ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: