Showing posts with label Erlang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erlang. Show all posts

6.8.13

Functional Programming comes to the Edinburgh Festival



Mostly Functional, a one-day event under the auspices of the Turing Festival, comes to Edinburgh on 22 August. Talks by Richard Carlsson, Dan Macklin, Duncan Coutts, Jose Valim, Eric Merritt, Gordon Guthrie, and others.

13.5.13

Elixir and prettier printing

Elixir adds meta-programming to Erlang.
Elixir is a functional meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang VM. It is a dynamic language with flexible syntax with macros support that leverages Erlang's abilities to build concurrent, distributed, fault-tolerant applications with hot code upgrades.
Jonn Mostovoy kindly requested my permission to name the pretty printing module Wadler.ex, after my work on prettier printing, which extends John Hughes's work, and appears in Richard Bird's festschrift.  See also Dan Leijen's Haskell version.