an article about the ecoop event i like and understand and that gives me the feeling it was good and worth to fight for the story. hah, and thanks for the support, robert!

Another thing that is not going to make Erlang big is that "sequential Erlang" is a functional programming language. Or that "concurrent Erlang' is an object-oriented language. The thing that is going to make Erlang big is that it is the only mature language with a rock-solid implementation and good set of libraries that lets you write software that can scale seamlessly from a single processor system to a hundred processor system ... ... Joe makes too much of functional programming because he says that lack of mutable state implies no locks. However, it is really lack of SHARED state that implies no locks. | ralph johnson, erlang the next java.

somehow i imagine joe armstrong sitting in his corner, smiling and saying: this is the old church and i am martin luther (audio/mpeg, 349 KB) , or something ... ;)

highly frustrated magnetism,

understanding the low temperature magnetic state in the presence of strong frustration. | schiffer

it takes only two days frustration from a mobile fermion to a severely occupied boson ... frustrated systems with itinerant aspects| hfm dresden

and not to forget frustrated total internal reflection. why the sudden all that frustration? i have seen the tunnel, therefore i am frustrated? clueless.

or a science? as functional programming languages are having their indian summer. is it their second, third, ... i don't know.

the slogan for smalltalk was: "write it once and run it everywhere". then came java and the saying: "write it once and debug it everywhere". in between was erlang armstrong likes to promote with: "written for programs that run forever".

joe armstrong why concurrency isn't harder to manage: there is no such thing like consistency (audio/mpeg, 521 KB)

one answer to the problem: let the system repair itself: biological (audio/mpeg, 429 KB) .

once upon a time there was an automated programmer ...