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Tom Santero
October 02, 2013
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Erlang Fight Club
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October 02, 2013
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Transcript
@tsantero Wednesday, October 2, 13
in the beginning it was called Prolog, but we’ve
moved out of the basements and now we call it Erlang Wednesday, October 2, 13
Ericsson put it on their switches...now we had
corporate sponsorship. Wednesday, October 2, 13
you are not your job. you are not how many
processes you have on the queue. you’re not the contents of your ets table you’re not your fucking heap. you are the all singing, all dancing crap of the beam. and you’re going to fail fast. Wednesday, October 2, 13
1st Rule Wednesday, October 2, 13
1st Rule rule1() -‐> ["you do not talk about erlang"
| rule1()]. Wednesday, October 2, 13
2nd Rule Wednesday, October 2, 13
2nd Rule rule2() -‐> ["you DO NOT talk about erlang"
| rule2()]. Wednesday, October 2, 13
3rd Rule Wednesday, October 2, 13
3rd Rule if a process unexpectedly quits, hangs, crashes: you
spawn a new process Wednesday, October 2, 13
4th Rule Wednesday, October 2, 13
4th Rule -‐export([fight/2]). Wednesday, October 2, 13
5th Rule Wednesday, October 2, 13
5th Rule +sbt Wednesday, October 2, 13
6th Rule Wednesday, October 2, 13
6th Rule Single Serving Variables Wednesday, October 2, 13
7th Rule Wednesday, October 2, 13
7th Rule programs will run as long as they
have to Wednesday, October 2, 13
8th Rule Wednesday, October 2, 13
8th Rule if this is your first time using
Erlang, you have to write it. Wednesday, October 2, 13
this is your net_ticktime, and it’s ending one millisecond at
a time Wednesday, October 2, 13
Thanks! Wednesday, October 2, 13