My Language of the Year
Java.
Just kidding :-) Erlang of course because it’s the next Java (I’m still trying to decide whether this is a good thing :-) Seriously, Erlang is important because it combines both functional and concurrency-oriented programming models in a very powerful way. Specifically, it turns out that the Erlang approach is ideal for harnessing the power of multi-core CPUs.
Anyway, for anyone interested in Erlang here’s a list of resources that may be helpful in getting started.
- Download Erlang
- Get Programming Erlang
- ErlyWeb - the Erlang equivalent of Rails.
- Yaws - the Erlang web server.
- Building Yaws on Windows - How to do it.
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I’ve started to take on Erlang as well… oh the ideas are flowing!
Just checked out Erlang, seems cool.
Erlang is an exceptional language. It really opened my mind to concurrent programming as a feasible rather than intractable endeavor.
I would add O’Reilly ONLamp’s Introduction to Erlang (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/13/introduction-to-erlang.html) to your list of key Erlang bookmarks. It is the most concise, engaging introduction I have read for Erlang.
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