Language Study: Erlang

Fall 2010

Documents

• Course Syllabus, Schedule, and Policies - Revised November 11, 2010
• Text: Programming Erlang
• Academic Honesty
• Academic Calendar
• Thursday after-class study group rooms:


• 10/28	LT123
  11/4	DY113
  11/11	DY113
  11/18	LT123
  12/2	DY113
  12/9	LT123

Assignments

1. History, Background, and Basics
   This document is not the answer.
2. Modules, recursion, and philosophical reflection
3. Tic-Tac-Toe - Mid-term Project
4. Interactive Fiction
   This document is one possible solution.
5. Distributed Interactive Fiction - Final Project

Challenges

• Challenge 1 - Plans within plans; lists within lists.
• Challenge 2 - Erlang and Java?

Resources

• References
• Erlang.org - the primary Erlang portal
• Erlang documentation that's actually usable - Better then the official site.
• Erlang Standard Libraries Reference
• Erlang Shell Commands
• Erlang BIFs (Built-In Functions)
• Erlang Solutions/Recipes - from langref.org
• O'Reilly's Erlang Book - at Google Books
• Sites
• Erlang Inside - News and Information on Erlang and Concurrent Computing
• Erlang Jobs
• Erlang-questions - the LISTSERV shadow at Google Groups
• The Erlang tag at Stack Overflow
• OS Threads used in BEAM - from Stack Overflow via the erlang-questions LISTSERV
• Comprehensive Erlang Archive Network - Erlang applications and libraries
• Courses
• A free Erlang course - from Erlang.org
• Learn You Some Erlang - an informative and amusing site
• Erlang Interview Series - from InfoQ
• Google TechTalk on Erlang
• By Joe Armstring, Erlang's (partial) creator
• CACM paper: A History of Erlang
• Concurrent Programming in ERLANG - A free book
• Interview on Software Engineering Radio
• Erlang Programming Advice and Guidelines
• Joe interviewed on ThinkingParallel
• Erlang Blogs
• Joe Armstrong
• Kevin Smith (No, not Silent Bob. A different one.)
• Adventures in Open Source Erlang(This is the Facebook guy)
• Planet Erlang
• Red Hot Erlang
• Programming in the 21st Century - A video game programmer using Erlang
• If you discover an Erlang blog you like and is not listed here please e-mail me and I'll add it.

Articles

• IBM's Transactional Memory
• Scala, Erlang, F# Creators Discuss Functional Languages at Erlang Factory 2010
• Why Functional Programming Matters
• Functional Programming in the Real World
• Erlang Factory - a collection of Erlang conference presentations
• Erlang projects at Facebook
• Erlang powers Facebook chat
• The Tablet Programming Multicore Challenge - Computerworld
• Erlang - Programming the Parallel World
• Erlang Multicore Support
• Amazon uses Erlang in SimpleDB - part of Amazon Web Services in the cloud
• Yahoo! Uses Erlang to Build Reliable, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Systems - a case study from Yahoo! where Erlang is being used in BOSS, Delicious, MyBlogLog, and FireEagle
• Grey Area, who just closed $2.5M in funding, is hiring Erlang developers to work on its Shadow Cities MMORPG.
• Optimizing the Erlang git-daemon

The Funny

• CouchDB, written in Erlang - a NoSQL-type "product"
• Erlang: The Movie - I can't tell if it's intentionally funny or not.

Examples

• Try Erlang in a browser
• Source Code from the book