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Where are functional languages used? [closed]
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Functional Programming in Commercial Software
Which problems domains are more suited to functional programming solutions
I just wonder where do functional programming ...
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Why didn't Erlang become very popular in distributed applications? [closed]
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What's wrong with Erlang?
I've been learning Erlang recently. Erlang is really powerful for implementing distributed applications.
I think the core advantages of ...
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How the Erlang get soft-realtime with GC?
Generally GC is not a good choice to get a soft real-time attribute. But Erlang is GC based language can be soft real-time.
Does it mean Erlang have almost no GC latency? How does it work?
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Don't structure data all the way down
In the blog post Don't structure data all the way down, the author discusses different ways to structure a circle datatype and how to implement the parameters to a Radius function.
area({circle, ...
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Actor library / framework for C++
In the C++ project I am working on, we have an application consisting of
several processes deployed on different machines. This network of
processes is dynamic since processes (clients or background ...
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why are transaction monitors on decline? or are they?
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Look at the demand for programmers (% of job ads that the keyword appears), first graph under the table. ...
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F# performance vs Erlang performance, is there proof the Erlang's VM is faster?
I've been putting time into learning functional programming and I've come to the part where I want to start writing a project instead of just dabbling in tutorials/examples.
While doing my research, ...
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What are the relative merits for implementing an Erlang-style “Continuation” pattern in C#
What are the relative merits (or demerits) for implementing an Erlang-style "Continuation" pattern in C#. I'm working on a project that has a large number of Lowest priority threads and I'm wondering ...
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Distributed transactions and queues, ruby, erlang
I have a problem that involves several machines, message queues, and transactions. So for example a user clicks on a web page, the click sends a message to another machine which adds a payment to the ...
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Erlang or 'x'.. Is it worth it (vs. Python w/ GIL)?
So, I've finally gotten myself to a point where I'm comfortable enough with Python (using Pyramid as my framework of choice) to undertake a rather large personal project. As it's a personal project, I ...
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Learning Erlang vs learning node.js [closed]
I see a lot of crap online about how Erlang kicks node.js' ass in just about every conceivable category. So I'd like to learn Erlang, and give it a shot, but here's the problem. I'm finding that I ...
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Introducing functional programming into your development environment
This is a long story but I will try to summarize it as best I can. We are a .NET shop that writes software for a variety of different types of funds. For example, we write health claims management ...
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Erlang web frameworks survey
(Inspired by similar question on Haskel)
There are several web frameworks for Erlang like Nitrogen, Chicago Boss, and Zotonic, and a few more.
In what aspects do they differ from each other? For ...
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Haskell vs Erlang for web services
I am looking to start an experimental project using a functional language
and am trying to decide beween Erlang and Haskell, and both have some points
that I really like.
I like Haskell's strong ...
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Newbie, deciding Python or Erlang
I'm a Administrator (unix, Linux and some windows apps such as Exchange) by experience and have never worked on any programming language besides C# and scripting on Bash and lately on powershell.
I'm ...
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Getting started programming in erlang
Can anyone recommend a tutorial for getting started in erlang? I'm a C/python programmer.
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What's wrong with Erlang?
(if anything!) I picked up Erlang last night again because I ran into a problem in Project Euler that I thought would be a perfect fit. After about a short time of coding, I had a solution that was ...
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Real world applications of erlang
I'm searching for real world applications of erlang, like projects already built with that language or pointers on how to search for such projects.
I'm looking for real projects not just test ...
