[erlang-questions] Erlangic-ness?

[bryan rasmussen]

Erlangish.


On 9/26/06, Liam Clarke <ml.cyresse@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Erlangic - the Erlang equivalent of Pythonic.
>
> Don't think it'll take off though.
>
> I've been writing an MSN client in Erlang as a learning project, and
> I'm reasonably confident with the basic sequential language. It's the
> sticking it together part that I can feel my noobness in.
>
> What I've completed so far will authenticate me with the MSN
> notification servers, now I just want to get the architecture right
> before proceeding any further.
>
> My current architecture involves interacting directly with an
> authentication controller process which controls a socket process.
>
> The socket process's code is http://paste.lisp.org/display/26798
> The authentication controller process codes is
> http://paste.lisp.org/display/26800
>
> The authentication module also makes an HTTP POST request; I've
> decided not to create another process for this currently as the
> authentication process is sequential in nature. The code for the HTTP
> request is http://paste.lisp.org/display/26801
>
> I'm currently implementing error handling - I'm going to shift overall
> control and user interaction into a supervisor process shortly. As
> every stage of the process requires that the previous stage complete
> successfully, I want the authentication controller and associated
> socket process to die and return useful debugging data if failure
> occurs.
>
> I'm trying to keep the error logic separate from the socket process -
> I hope to be able to use the same generic socket code with some slight
> modifcations.
>
> My ultimate aim is to have  the my various bit so modularised so that
> swapping a GUI interface for console interaction or similar should not
> change anything.
>
> If it's possible, could someone please cast their eye over my code?
> I'm wondering if there's any obvious gotchas, or bad design patterns
> or just inefficiencies due to clumsy usage of Erlang.
>
> I thank anyone who does in advance for their time - Erlang is a
> different paradigm entirely, and I'm unsure as to good practise. I've
> been looking at the OTP design principles and Mr Armstrong's thesis,
> but I'm unsure as to how far I need to take it.
>
> Should I be using stuff like gen_event and supervisor()?
>
> Regards,
>
> Liam Clarke
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