[erlang-questions] Why Erlang? GDC Online 2012

[Henning Diedrich]

Hi list,

the slides of my talk at the last GDC Online in Austin, last Wednesday, are up at

http://www.slideshare.net/eonblast/why-erlang-gdc-online-2012

It's an intro to Erlang, including for management level folks with past programming experience. But also get-your-toes-wet source examples in its second part.

The slides are verbose in an attempt to make them useful for Slideshare-only consumption.

Please let me know if you find any errors or grave omissions.

Big thanks again to Robert, Joe, Ulf and Felix for their feedback and input.

Thanks,
Henning
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[Gleb Peregud]

Can you give a link for an announcement of "cures" of strings and records? I must have missed them here at mailing list

Cheers,

Gleb

[Henning Diedrich]

Could be here: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2012/speakers/KennethLundin

It's my recollection of the presentation "Latest News from the Erlang OTP Group" at the EUC 2012 by Kenneth Lundin.

I did not find slides online but from the year before, hinting in that direction, too. See Slide 10 http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/487/EUC_stockholm2011.pdf

The alternate for Records would be O'Keefe's frames. For the strings I don't know details.

Best,

Henning

[Richard O'Keefe]

> On Saturday, October 13, 2012, Henning Diedrich wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> the slides of my talk at the last GDC Online in Austin, last Wednesday, are up at
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/eonblast/why-erlang-gdc-online-2012

Nice. It's ConWAY's Game of Life, not ConWELL's.
How did you get the 3d figurines? Slide 79 was quite impressive.
Slide 96: "Start on capitals" should be "Start WITH capitals",
"Statements end on" should be "Statements end WITH", and
"short variables names" should be "short variable names".
Slide 130, "wheter" should be "whether".
Slide 134: "Stackless [Python] has a GIL" -- what's a GIL?
Slide 150: "tupels" should be "tuples".

[Siraaj Khandkar]

On Oct 14, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
...

> Slide 134: "Stackless [Python] has a GIL" -- what's a GIL?

Global Interpreter Lock


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Siraaj Khandkar
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[Henning Diedrich]

Richard!

On Oct 15, 2012, at 12:38 AM, Richard O'Keefe <o...@cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

>> On Saturday, October 13, 2012, Henning Diedrich wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> the slides of my talk at the last GDC Online in Austin, last Wednesday, are up at
>>
>> http://www.slideshare.net/eonblast/why-erlang-gdc-online-2012
>
> Nice.

Thank you, it means a lot to me.

> It's ConWAY's Game of Life, not ConWELL's.

Just when I tried to be clever.

> How did you get the 3d figurines? Slide 79 was quite impressive.

You are referring to Laokoon & Sons, is that a brilliant interpretation?

The figurines are from CanStockPhoto, mostly from author AnatolyM as it seems:

http://www.canstockphoto.com/AnatolyM/

or found using the keywords "3d small people"

When purchased in bulk (buying credit points) the effective price can be as low as around a dollar a piece.

It can take some time browsing the stock but turns out very rewarding.

> Slide 96: "Start on capitals" should be "Start WITH capitals",
> "Statements end on" should be "Statements end WITH", and
> "short variables names" should be "short variable names".
> Slide 130, "wheter" should be "whether".
> Slide 134: "Stackless [Python] has a GIL" -- what's a GIL?
> Slide 150: "tupels" should be "tuples".
>

The eye for the detail is much appreciated, thanks again, I corrected and updated the slides.

New personal fav quote: "What's* a GIL?"

Best,
Henning

*as in: "this /can't/ possibly be true, can it?"