PUBLIC MARKS with tag Erlang

If you want to to add and remove fields on the fly, or if you don't know what fields you'll have until runtime, you should use dicts rather than records.

whenever using record, how and not (by choosing dict instead)

[…] the recorded sessions from last year’s Commercial Users of Functional Programming are now up in conveniently viewable form on Google Video.

Erlang, F#, ...

Erlang-style pattern matching. This defines a decorator ``Inbox`` which turns a function into an inbox that accepts messages (through calling) and dispatches to an implementation.

a very basic File and Directory Listing capability to my MochiWeb project

How do you program a multicore computer? Easy - do it in Erlang. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed for programming fault-tolerant systems. With share-nothing semantics and pure message passing, Erlang programs scales on multicore computers. In this talk, Joe introduces Erlang, the ideas of Concurrent Oriented Programming and commercial applications written in Erlang

With the recent brouhaha over Twitter’s scalability problems, I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to write a Twitter clone in Erlang?

Last weekend was cold and rainy here in Palo Alto, so I sat down and hacked one, and thus Twoorl was born. It took me one full day plus a couple of evenings. The codebase is about 1700 lines (including comments).

Twitter is dead, long live to Twoorl. The code is open source.

eCouch is an Erlang application that provides access to CouchDb servers.

The power of OTP comes from the fact that properties such as fault tolerance, scalability, dynamic-code upgrade, and so on, can be provided by the behavior itself. In other words, the writer of the callback does not have to worry about [those things] because this is provided by the behavior.

This HOWTO describes a web server written for the day when even Yaws is not quick enough.