Ling is a reincarnation of Erlang VM and, as such, it must exhibit behaviour sufficiently similar to its widely used ancestor, BEAM. An extensive testing has been conducted to demonstrate the similarity. The results of the testing are summarized in the ta... (more…)

Working as an Erlang mentor, there are several tiny simple lessons that I’ve delivered over and over again. The one in this article is so common that I already gave it a name: The Robot Butt Rule. (more…)

There have been large shifts in how people approached programming over the last 20 years. Whereas material of yesterday focused a lot on writing reusable and extendable components within each project, the current trend is to make small, isolated projects ... (more…)

alpaca - Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM...

Ted Nelson, who coined the term ""Hypertext"" also coined the lesser known word ""Intertwingled"" - this captures the idea that all there is is knowledge which is tangled up and linked together in a myriad of complex ways. (more…)