So last night we had our first Detroit Erlang/Elixir meetup and as part of it I wanted to do a little coding exercise to help people to get their feet wet with Erlang and/or Elixir, as they chose.  We simply worked through FizzBuzz and we came up with two different Elixir solutions and two different Erlang […]

So one of the things I’ve done recently to help me to learn a new language is to tackle creating certain data structures and common operations on those structures in a given language.  And lately I’ve been digging Elixir quite a bit.  So I decided to tackle one of the easiest things I could tackle–a […]

One of the more hotly debated topics among software developers these days is adopting functional programming. Those people who ponder these questions have presented good arguments regarding adopting (or avoiding) functional programming.  But the term “functional programming” is a bit slippery and often when developers say functional programming they’re actually referring to a few different […]

Paul Schoenfelder and I are sort of trying to get more Windows developers to take a look at Elixir.  We both think Elixir’s got a great story to tell and Windows developers will be very excited when they find out more about it. In that spirit, we’ve updated the Chocolatey NuGet package for Elixir to […]

So I’m trying to fill out my understanding of basic functional programming concepts in terms of Elixir and Erlang.  One concept that I wanted to know a bit more about is how Partial Function Application and Currying work in Elixir.  Especially given that the function signature of a function in Elixir includes its arity, it […]