<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Bjarne Däcker once wrote a nice booklet called "Datalogilaboratoriet - de första 10 åren" (The Computer Science Lab - the first 10 years).</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.erlang.se/publications/jubileumsskrift.html">http://www.erlang.se/publications/jubileumsskrift.html</a> (unfortunately without the great pictures found in the printed book)</div><div><br></div><div>I just tried running it through Google Translate</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://www.erlang.se/publications/jubileumsskrift.html">http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.erlang.se%2Fpublications%2Fjubileumsskrift.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>and it works pretty well. Bjarne writes fairly idiomatic Swedish, so the google translator doesn't get too confused*.</div><div><br></div><div>I think the text is well worth reading, even in this machine-translated form, if you're a sucker for Erlang history.</div><div><br></div><div>* I did notice this failure:</div><div><br></div><div>Original:</div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div class="google-src-active-text" style="display: block !important; color: black !important; font-size: 12px !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif !important; line-height: 19px; direction: ltr; text-align: left; ">- It's not good enough to have ideas - you must also be able to implement them to know that they work."</div><div style="font-family: Times; "></div></div><div><br></div><div>Translation:</div><div>- It's not good enough to Have ideas - you must also "request variable to Implement Them to Know That Do They Work." </div><div><br></div><div>Tip to google: It's not *that* uncommon to find English quotes in Swedish texts. Be prepared for it.</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Ulf W</div><br><div>
<div>Ulf Wiger, CTO, Erlang Solutions, Ltd.</div><div><a href="http://erlang-solutions.com">http://erlang-solutions.com</a></div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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