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Distributed resilience with functional programming

Functional programming has a long and distinguished heritage of great work — that was only used by a small group of programmers. In a world dominated by individual computers running single processors, the extra cost of thinking functionally limited its …

Distributed resilience with functional programming

Functional programming has a long and distinguished heritage of great work — that was only used by a small group of programmers. In a world dominated by individual computers running single processors, the extra cost of thinking functionally limited its …

Programming Is Fun Again!

I've been programming in Erlang just for the heck of it!

Four short links: 12 July 2011

Slopegraphs -- a nifty Tufte visualization which conveys rank, value, and delta over time. Includes pointers to how to make them, and guidelines for when and how they work. (via Avi Bryant) Ask Me Anything: A Technical Lead on the Google+ Team -- lots of juicy details about technology and dev process. A couple nifty tricks we do: we...

Clojure: Lisp meets Java, with a side of Erlang

OSCON speaker Stuart Sierra digs into Clojure: what it is, how it works, and why it's attracting Java developers.

To err is human, to Erlang divine

About three years ago I was really getting into Functional Programming (FP). Up until then I had been doing a lot of work with XSLT, which has many FP characteristics; Single Assignment, Lazy Evaluation, and the like, but I wanted to explore further what FP had to offer. Then, more by luck than judgement, I ran into Erlang, and we just clicked. To me, it seemed an elegant and expressive language, and a Functional one at that.