[erlang-questions] The Beauty of Erlang Syntax

[Joe Armstrong]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Michael McDaniel <erlangy@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:43:57PM +0100, Joe Armstrong wrote:
>> for(Max,Max,F) ->  F(Max);
>> for(I,N,F) -> F(I),for(I+1,Max,F).
>>
>> for(1,10, fun(I) -> io:format("...." end)
>>
>> The code is *shorter than the documentation"
>>
>> writing the code is quicker than finding the documentation and reading it - this
>> is true in most programming languages which is why programmers write
>> code.
>>
>> This happens all the time I wanted hex2int after 20 seconds in google I gave up
>> and wrote it myself - this is also true for javascript C, ... as Wirth once said
>> It is better to know one langauge very well that to know many languages
>> incompletely..
>>
>> Hint: read books and type in the examples. for/3 is in my book :-)
>> don't rely on the web for information - (example Douglas Crockford's
>> Good Parts of JavaScript - I learnt more in half an hour reading this
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
>  ... and which new *Haskell* book captured you ?
>
>

Real world Haskell - or course - " a cracking good read" I highly recommend it.

Reading it made me realise how similar Haskell and Erlang are under
the surface, once we absract away from minor details like type
systems, evaluation strategies and concurrency.

The basic problem of writing Haskell is the same as writing Erlang - ie
getting the data to the right part of the program, which means a deal of
hokie pokie in both languages.

/Joe Armstrong



>
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> ~Michael
>
>
>
>
>> than dozens of
>> hours reading appallingly bad articles on the web)
>>
>>
>> /Joe Armstrong
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Zvi <exta7@REDACTED> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Kevin Scaldeferri wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If you want to have only one way of doing anything, perhaps you should
>> >> try Python.  I hear that's one of their design principles.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Kevin,
>> > I playing a devil advocate here (actualy some company paid me to be a
>> > devil's advocate :)
>> > I can adopt to any syntax and semantics. I already use Erlang and love it. I
>> > just think of it as a low-level language, kinda parallel and distributed
>> > COBOL :) There are some simple things that hard to do in Erlang. That's the
>> > reason, why project like Disco uses combination of Erlang+Python and Fuzed -
>> > Erlang+Ruby.
>> >
>> >
>> > Kevin Scaldeferri wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, the point is, if times() is something you do a lot, just write
>> >> it and get on with your life.  If it matters to you a lot, make an
>> >> argument for why it's generally important and submit a patch to the
>> >> standard libraries.
>> >>
>> > Obviously you didn't read the list of things hard in Erlang, simple in other
>> > langs. Repeat N times, is just a simplest example. In Jim Larson's
>> >
>> > Times, just a case of "for" loop.
>> > I working on generic collections library for Erlang, where will be ranges.
>> > Someting like:
>> >
>> > R = gc_range:new(1,10).
>> > gc:foreach(fun(_)->io:format("hi~n") end, R).
>> >
>> > Zvi
>> >
>> >
>> >
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