Comments on: Erlang Now! http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/ random thoughts on programming and programming languages Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:02:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: C Turner http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-24785 C Turner Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:17:39 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-24785 Your blog has an annoying aspect - I middle-clicked on the title to open a new tab. It opened a new tab but the current view also navigated away from the current page, where I had spent some time downloading the video. Your blog has an annoying aspect - I middle-clicked on the title to open a new tab. It opened a new tab but the current view also navigated away from the current page, where I had spent some time downloading the video.

]]> By: Erlang FTW! | www.purplecow.org http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-24725 Erlang FTW! | www.purplecow.org Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:27:31 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-24725 [...] This post links to an amusing video about Erlang. Man, I haven’t heard a peep about that language in quite some time. I wonder if Erlang is still in use around the telco switching industry. [...] [...] This post links to an amusing video about Erlang. Man, I haven’t heard a peep about that language in quite some time. I wonder if Erlang is still in use around the telco switching industry. [...]

]]> By: There is an Erlang community, it’s just smaller than you’re used to at Matt Croydon::Postneo http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-24724 There is an Erlang community, it’s just smaller than you’re used to at Matt Croydon::Postneo Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:50:09 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-24724 [...] lurking, participating, and sharing what I’ve learned in #erlang on irc.freenode.net since the Erlang movie blew my mind. I started tinkering with Erlang and the PDF for Programming Erlang came out a few [...] [...] lurking, participating, and sharing what I’ve learned in #erlang on irc.freenode.net since the Erlang movie blew my mind. I started tinkering with Erlang and the PDF for Programming Erlang came out a few [...]

]]> By: Erlang network programming at Matt Croydon::Postneo http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-23747 Erlang network programming at Matt Croydon::Postneo Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:52:50 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-23747 [...] of the things that truly blew me away about Erlang (after the original Erlang Now! moment) is its bit syntax. The bit syntax as documented at erlang.org and covered in Programming [...] [...] of the things that truly blew me away about Erlang (after the original Erlang Now! moment) is its bit syntax. The bit syntax as documented at erlang.org and covered in Programming [...]

]]> By: Mike http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-22038 Mike Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:56:53 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-22038 We gave a well received "demo" in 1990, conjunction with ISS90, a big telecoms conference in Stockholm. We made this movie to record the demo. We actually used a professional company to do the filming, but I won't mention their names as they would probably sue me for libel. The worse of it all, is that we were deadly serious at the time. The Monty Python aspect must be due to our backgrounds. Of the people involved, Joe is English, Robert is Swedish - but brought up in Australia, Bjarne is also Swedish but spend some formative years in Scotland and I'm half Welsh half Scottish with some Irish thrown in somewhere. In 1990, when we made the movie, the very idea of using anything other than C, Plex, assembly language etc to design embedded concurrent systems was heresy, we expected to take the world by storm. It seems that the cheap communication and multi core processors are giving Erlang a boost 16 years later. Well at least in the intervening time we have tested the hell out of Erlang and its implementations! /mike PS. If you look carefully at the film, you can see that Erlang at that time had a Prolog like syntax. PPS. I can't watch the movie without laughing (at) myself We gave a well received “demo” in 1990, conjunction with ISS90, a big telecoms conference in Stockholm. We made this movie to record the demo. We actually used a professional company to do the filming, but I won’t mention their names as they would probably sue me for libel.

The worse of it all, is that we were deadly serious at the time. The Monty Python aspect must be due to our backgrounds. Of the people involved, Joe is English, Robert is Swedish - but brought up in Australia, Bjarne is also Swedish but spend some formative years in Scotland and I’m half Welsh half Scottish with some Irish thrown in somewhere.

In 1990, when we made the movie, the very idea of using anything other than C, Plex, assembly language etc to design embedded concurrent systems was heresy, we expected to take the world by storm. It seems that the cheap communication and multi core processors are giving Erlang a boost 16 years later. Well at least in the intervening time we have tested the hell out of Erlang and its implementations!

/mike

PS. If you look carefully at the film, you can see that Erlang at that time had a Prolog like syntax.

PPS. I can’t watch the movie without laughing (at) myself

]]> By: Francesco http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-21751 Francesco Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:15:21 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-21751 We are all happy the inventors of Erlang never gave up their day jobs for a career in acting :-) We are all happy the inventors of Erlang never gave up their day jobs for a career in acting :-)

]]> By: User Primary » Blog Archive » Fantastic Erlang Video http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-18086 User Primary » Blog Archive » Fantastic Erlang Video Wed, 30 May 2007 15:19:50 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-18086 [...] Check out this video about Erlang. I found it while reading Jao’s Programming Musings blog so I’ll just give the link to his post [...] [...] Check out this video about Erlang. I found it while reading Jao’s Programming Musings blog so I’ll just give the link to his post [...]

]]> By: isbn.erl: My first Erlang module at Matt Croydon::Postneo 2.0 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-15713 isbn.erl: My first Erlang module at Matt Croydon::Postneo 2.0 Fri, 04 May 2007 01:32:52 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-15713 [...] been noticing the buzz about Erlang over the past few months, but two things won me over: the Erlang video and how amazingly simple and elegant concurrency and message passing [...] [...] been noticing the buzz about Erlang over the past few months, but two things won me over: the Erlang video and how amazingly simple and elegant concurrency and message passing [...]

]]> By: Thomas_H http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-14749 Thomas_H Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:26:11 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-14749 The movie is probably from the end 80ies/early 90ies, which contributes to the Monty Python feeling. (The picture of the bearded guy with speech bubbles shows probably Erlang's namesake Agner Krarup Erlang). Joe Armstrong, one of the "characters", gave a more recent, yet similar lively presentation about Erlang at the LL2 workshop in 2002: http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/ (You can see how he has grayed). He is the first presenter in the morning session. If you check it out, make sure you download his slides from the Proceedings section beforehand (for the graphics). The movie is probably from the end 80ies/early 90ies, which contributes to the Monty Python feeling. (The picture of the bearded guy with speech bubbles shows probably Erlang’s namesake Agner Krarup Erlang). Joe Armstrong, one of the “characters”, gave a more recent, yet similar lively presentation about Erlang at the LL2 workshop in 2002:

http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/

(You can see how he has grayed). He is the first presenter in the morning session. If you check it out, make sure you download his slides from the Proceedings section beforehand (for the graphics).

]]> By: Marc Abramowitz » Lisp movies http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-14511 Marc Abramowitz » Lisp movies Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:23:06 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/erlang-now/#comment-14511 [...] I think these would be very impressive for someone who is a die-hard C/C++ coder and who hasn’t played around much with Python, Ruby, etc. They are probably less impressive to the Python and Ruby crowd or to people who have watched screencasts for Ruby on Rails, Django, TurboGears, etc. Or the campy Erlang movie. [...] [...] I think these would be very impressive for someone who is a die-hard C/C++ coder and who hasn’t played around much with Python, Ruby, etc. They are probably less impressive to the Python and Ruby crowd or to people who have watched screencasts for Ruby on Rails, Django, TurboGears, etc. Or the campy Erlang movie. [...]

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