To install Erlang on your Mac, follow these simple steps: download the latest source file from the official Erlang site here. open the Terminal go to the folder where you’ve saved the .gz source file run the following command: tar –xzf otp_src_R15B01.tar.gz (replace the filename with the name of the file you’ve downloaded) then go [...]

Brushing up on Erlang again having spent so much time with F# since I last looked at Erlang, it’s startling how much parallels I see between the two languages in terms of features and syntax, and I’m sure it’s no coincidence To help myself and other F# programmers who’re curious about Erlang get started more [...]

This is the first blog in a series to help F# programmers keep up-to-date with different ways of doing numerically-oriented programming with F#. The first posts in this series will focus on the open source Math.NET Numerics library. Math.NET Numerics is an opensource numerical library for F# and C# on .NET and Mono, including implementations of .NET supporting .NET portable code (Metro and Silverlight). Math.NET Numerics is the numerical foundation of the Math.NET project, aiming to provide methods and alg[...]

Just finished watching a good video by Bryan Hunter titled Erlang for C# Developers where he told a great story about the first project Erlang was used in inside Ericson and how they managed a Nine Nines uptime with that project. For anyone who’s wondering what ‘Nine Nines’ means, it means the service is available [...]

A bit more C#/.NET generics research project history. Attached is the "Ext-VOS" white paper from back in 1999. We passed this around to many Project-7 members at the time. Way back in the dark, dark days of object-oriented fundamentalism (i.e. the 1990s), for the big, typed languages like Java there were no function values, no delegates, no closures. There were no generic types, no tuple types, no Task<T>, no IEnumerable<T>, no IQueryable<T>, no List<T>, no Dictionary<Key,Value>. There was no LINQ, and cou[...]