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Today I installed VMWare Fusion, downloaded an Ubuntu server image, and made three copies of it.

I wanted one image to test the io language, one to test the Rubinius virtual machine for Ruby, and one for testing the Scala language.

So far I have the io and rubinius VMs up and running. I haven't tested any io code yet, but I have tested some sample code that uses Actors against the Rubinius VM.

I'm doing this for my term paper for CSC464 which is about the Actor Model.

links for 2008-04-02

• Man-made molecules reverse liver cirrhosis in rats | Science | Reuters
  (tags: liver cirrhosis hepatitis)
• smallcode » Blog Archive » What your compiler can do for you
  (tags: compiler programming)
• The *Real* Erlang "Hello, World!"
  (tags: erlang programming helloworld concurrency actor-model messagepassing)
• Fortress Version 1.0 Released
  (tags: fortress programming sun)
• Erlang List Comprehensions: By Necessity
  (tags: erlang programming comprehensions fp c#)
• Mercurial Hosting - freeHg.org
  (tags: mercurial hosting scm versioncontrol hg programming distributed)
• Dive into Erlang
  (tags: erlang concurrency programming actor-model)
• Erlang, the next Java
  (tags: concurrency erlang functional language programming fp reliability)
• Erlang-Style Concurrency
  (tags: erlang programming actor-model concurrency)
• Introduction To Erlang
  (tags: erlang actor-model programming concurrency)
• Scalability != concurrency at Ted Leung on the Air
  Which is what makes the situation with Java so bad. Not only is the language bad, the VM is fatally flawed when it comes to actor style concurrency (which is why for all its niceties, Scala will suffer the same problems as Java).
  (tags: erlang actor-model concurrency scala java programming scalability)
• Bringing the cloud with you (Official Google Docs Blog)
  (tags: google googledocs offline googlegears)
• Measuring Cyclomatic Complexity Of Python Code
  (tags: python programming complexity ast compiler visitor)
• RESTful Services with Erlang and Yaws (InfoQ)
  (tags: erlang rest yaws programming http scalability web performance)
• Q&A with two Stanford Facebook class teams who reached 1M users in 30 days
  (tags: facebook development business education stanford)
• Sutter Speaks: A Conversation with the Concurrency Whisperer
  (tags: concurrency programming sutter)
• Multitasking for Common LISP (Dr. Dobb's)
  (tags: concurrency lisp programming)
• Revactor: Erlang-style concurrency for Ruby 1.9
  (tags: concurrency erlang programming ruby coroutines fibers actor-model)
• Growing a Language, by Guy Steele
  (tags: language programming scheme video design guy-steele languages)
• What's all this fuss about Erlang? (The Pragmatic Bookshelf)
  (tags: books concurrency erlang programming parallel)
• Gerald Jay Sussman: The Role of Programming (Dan Friedman's 60th Birthday)
  (tags: programming video sussman)
• VMware Image - Ubuntu Server 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)jc
  (tags: vmware ubuntu vm)