Germany will launch a competition in November that will allow officials to scout software programming talent for its Semantic Web project, and hopes programmers from the open-source community will participate. | open it world via technews

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[18:06] decke, problem goes away if you name it something other than .type? [18:06] good question... [18:07] one second... will try that... [18:07] you think of another "magic" thing? [18:07] ? [18:08] (you mean besides _whatever?) [18:08] so the _thing probably is a "feature" [18:08] or convention ;-) [18:09] still reporting it, 'cause it shouldn't be that way, and if it has to be for some reason, it definitely needs to be documented [18:09] no param.voeslauer also causes the same behaviour... [18:09] which is "Request timed out" .. [18:09] ok. I've no idea what a voeslauer is, but I'm sure it's not a reserved word [18:10] lol [18:10] that's a mineral water from austria... [18:10] standing in front of me...| helma irc

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 ... ;)