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On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:40:23PM -0400, Randy Schmidt wrote:
> I'm bummed I'm going to have to miss the Erlang presentation by
> Tob(y|i). Any chance there could be a repeat at some point?
>
> Tob(y|i), are you using Erlang at Commerce360?
Its a y. If people want it to be so, I can certainly do a repeat, possibly
with more advanced Erlang material. I was planning on simultaneously
releasing a small SMTP server written in Erlang along with the talk, but
work's been so busy that I didn't have time to do it. Alternatively, there
might be some interest in this talk at the Philly on Rails group, so I
might end up doing this talk again over there at some point.
As for using it at C360, we are not using it now. While I'm attracted to
Erlang technically, its use complicates other areas of life, in particular
hiring, which I'm doing a bunch of lately. We might end up using Scala as
a compromise: its Actor model is similar to Erlang's concurrency model,
but it compiles down to JVM bytecode so its less controversial than a full
blown FP lang.
P.S. I wasn't kidding about the hiring thing. I'll be wearing your phone
screen interview tomorrow night, so if anyone needs a job, come on up and
explain what's on my shirt. No blurting out the answer, though ;)
--
Toby DiPasquale
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