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Life & Erlang

Posted on Fri Oct 05 @ 21:08:07

This past month or two I was preoccupied with collecting necessary documents to raise a loan at the bank to buy a flat. I’m planning to go live with my girlfriend/future wife in a small town called Solin near Split (Croatia). So all my free time was spent collecting those documents . I only need to get one more document and then I’m going to the bank for that loan.

I haven’t had much time to program anything in my free time. I am reading “Programming Erlang” very slowly though, half a chapter every 3 to 5 days. I must say I’m enjoying it, and I already have some ideas about projects. One idea would be to develop a ejabberd module which integrates with trac. The integration would mean a developer could add, edit, list tickets, attach files to tickets and comment on tickets using his or hers IM client.

To enable this integration the IM client would need to know how to use it so I’m planning to write a pidgin plugin also. For now ejabberd and trac will need to live on the same machine because I intend to write a simple port program in python using trac API.

If you have any useful comments please do comment :)

Enjoy!

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Book: Programming Erlang

Posted on Tue Aug 21 @ 09:06:53

I’ve started reading the Programming Erlang book by Joe Armstrong. I’ve learned about the existence of Erlang about a year or two ago when I was looking into learning a functional language.

I tried Haskell, Ocaml and Erlang (I didn’t tried Lisp purely on aesthetics issues – i don’t like too many parenthesis :) ). After a while with those languages i choose Erlang as my functional language to learn. Haskell learning curve was too steep, and in Ocaml i didn’t like the syntax.

So when the beta of the Erlang book was announced I bought it. And now after I have some spare time I started reading it. The book is really easy to read. Joe did a fantastic job of explaining Erlang in simple words. I recommend to all of you who have a desire to learn a functional language to give Erlang a try.

P.S. The reasons for choosing Erlang are totally subjective and by no mean am I saying that either Haskell or Ocaml are bad languages. I’m just saying that I liked Erlang more. The same goes for Lisp.

Enjoy!

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