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Erlang - do any of you use this programming language?

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  • 25-01-2008 3:33pm
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    AARRRGH
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    I'm learning Erlang at the moment. It's a functional language used to build concurrent, fault tolerant systems.

    It seems quite nice.

    Do any of you use this language?


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    fasty
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    Did it in 3rd year in college. Haven't used it since!


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    rmacm
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    dublindude wrote: »
    I'm learning Erlang at the moment. It's a functional language used to build concurrent, fault tolerant systems.

    It seems quite nice.

    Do any of you use this language?

    Don't program in it myself but work with systems that are written in it. I'm interested in learning it myself...lack of time at the moment is a bit of a problem though.


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    AARRRGH
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    rmacm wrote: »
    Don't program in it myself but work with systems that are written in it. I'm interested in learning it myself...lack of time at the moment is a bit of a problem though.

    Do you work for Ericsson?


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    rmacm
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    dublindude wrote: »
    Do you work for Ericsson?

    Yeah


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    AARRRGH
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    Learning more of this language... God it's complicated! :o

    Higher-order functions are a pain in the hole.

    For example, there are no for loops, so you can create your own like this -

    for(Max, Max, F) -> [F(Max)];
    for(I, Max, F) -> [F(I)|for(I+1, Max, F)].

    Where F is some function, and you'd initally call the loop doing something like "for(1, 10, some function)."

    That's just horrendous really...

    I'm finding I'm having to forget most of the programming concepts I know (such as variables being variable).


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