I’d like to write about a computer program that has been described by Dr William Byrd as being the most beautiful program ever written, which you may hear all about in his wonderfully rewatchable talk on it. (more…)

Learn more about the history of the programming languages Erlang and Elixir! (more…)

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Yaws (Yet another web server) is a web server written in Erlang by Claes (klacke) Wikström. Yaws can be embedded into other Erlang-based applications or run as a regular standalone web server.[2] ... (more…)

Try to remember the first time you heard about this fascinating language called Elixir. Chances are, you had by the time been developing software using Ruby. If that's the case, Elixir seems to have appeared out of nowhere until suddenly, it became the so... (more…)