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Joe Armstrong 🔗

Ex-physicist. PhD CS. Inventor Erlang.

»How to make money«. The engineer’s way: make money according to the plan.

If you use the same technology as everybody else you get the same result as everybody else.

Let’s be different.

XLVIII x XCIII

= MMMMCDLXIV

The same language
Boring, Level playing field, No commercial advantage

Use a better language

Fun, Risky, Large commercial advantage

There exist things that we can’t talk about because our language is inadequate.

No notion of a zero in roman numerals. Can’t express things with zeros in it.
This makes programming difficult.

The year between 1 BC and 1 AD?

Babylonians knew about zero.

32-core processor. Erlang problem could go 32 times faster, not so with Java or C++.

The »Javarians« knew about processes and types but »Erlangians« got processes right and »Haskellians« got types right.

  1. Assembler
  2. Fortran – C (imperative)
  3. C++, Java, Ruby, C# (OO)
  4. Erlang – Haskell (CO- concurrency oriented, FP - )

Resistance to change between the

Concurrency-oriented model.

Banned from Ericsson Revenge of the nerds. Startade eget, såldes för 1,4 miljarder kronor.

Kreditor.

Ejabbard. World domination in 2 years.

Book: Programming Erlang on the Pragmatic programmers.

Anti-inspirational: Windows Vista’s memory requirements.