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Friday, May 23, 2008
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Really impressive stuff. When I saw this I thought about the games I play and realized they don't do any of this, and suddenly they feel sorta primitive!
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You know what, if Erlang is good enough for Facebook for their chat system, then it's damn well good enough for Twitter. I think they're already using ejabberd, but perhaps they should be using it for more of their infrastructure.
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"Another area I have seen many issues with is threading. Languages like C# and Java make threading a reachable concept for the programming masses." What? How is threading in Java or C# any easier than in C/pthreads, except on a superficial basis?
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It's nice to see a lot of knowledgable people breaking down Ted Neward's uninformed FUD about Erlang. Erlang's core strengths are fundamental to the design of the language and its runtime, you can't simply shoehorn it into other languages with a library.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
links for 2008-05-23
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I don't think this would be suitable for hockey, I don't see how you could do the kind of powerful stops hockey players do without hurting yourself or ruining the surface. There's a reason hockey rinks have to be resurfaced after every hour of use.
