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January 30, 2008
Erlang: The Movie
Sometimes it seems as if there are no real nerds left in the world of CS. Ruby hipsters and C++ mavens, maybe. But not the kind of white shirt / skinny tie IBM 4 Lyfe nerds that used to rule the scene.
Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me? Either way, I have discovered Erlang: The Movie, an introduction to the Erlang programming language that has renewed my faith in true CS masters.
Developed by exactly the type of hard-core telephony nerds that could only exist deep within the Ericsson company labs (moto "the world leading supplier in telecommunications and lutfisk"), Erlang is a general purpose, declarative, fault tolerant, highly concurrent language useful for building systems that need to run for months or years without a reboot.
The linked movie consists of the Erlang team briefly explaining some of the more pertinent aspects of their programming language with what the Internet Archive describes as "technical enlightenment and unintentional humor in roughly equal, and colossal, proportions." I can tell you that they are not exaggerating.
Watch the movie, or, view the Internet Archive hosting site for links to other 'net related goodness.
Posted by ashusta at January 30, 2008 08:51 PM