A Joeish Erlang distribution (long)

[Joakim G.]

Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom wrote:
>>  1 Internet (server) programming focus
>>  2 Concurrency Oriented Programming Language
>>  3 Simplicity (due to 4)
>>  4 Capable of handling small/middle/largish software projects
>>  5 Aggressive towards addition/removal of language constructs/libraries
>>     (thus 6) [*].
>>  6 Less focus on backwards compatibility.
> 
> What if one wants to create a cute looking rich client in Erlang?
> The present graphical user interface is looking very old fashioned.

Erlang is so much better suited for the server side. Lets forget building
product quality GUIs in Erlang. You can't be everywhere. :-)

>>  Documentation
>>  -------------
>>  Documentation is the key to the spread the COPL message/distribution.
>>  Because of the "pure" Erlang (read: non-OTP) nature of the
>>  distribution a revised version of the Erlang book would suffice. I
>>  know: It has to be written from scratch to avoid copyright
>>  infringement. At least is doesn't need to describe OTP so the work
>>  involved would be _somewhat_ restricted. This means a lot of work. I
>>  can volunteer with a chapter on how to write an xmlrpc servers/clients
>>  [if this is what the editor wants].
> 
> I see Java's available free documentation, the well done online tutorials
> and even the use of the javadoc tool as big plus of that language.
> The Erlang documentation seems less accessable to me.

I fully agree. Dense. Steep learning curve. Geared towards zealots.

Cheers
/Jocke
-- 
If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone
pulls out a sword I'd like to see you get up there with your Bic.