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.
