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  Blaxter

  1 year ago

  I'm right now also learning Erlang (with programming erlang of Joe Amstrong :D). Cool examples, thanks!
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  Jesse

  1 year ago

  Blaxter,
  
  Glad to be of service. There's a real lack of information about Erlang on the web outside of the official documentation.
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  Greg M

  1 year ago

  "so-called modern languages like Java, Ruby, or Python"
  
  What? Who so-called them that? None of those were even modern when they were designed, let alone now.
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  Nick Gerakines

  6 months ago

  I think he meant to say "so-called popular languages like Java, Ruby or Python"
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  Jesse

  1 year ago

  Greg,
  
  A truly devastating argument. ;)
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  Spruce Moose

  1 year ago

  Heh - I remember Beej's guide. I thought it was pretty cool way back in the mid-1990's. (-:
  
  I did a similar thing learning about the gen_server and gen_tcp modules except I thought I would re-implement the finger daemon. I got all the way through the network and server code and finally discovered that Erlang doesn't have an interface to all the POSIX user and group functions so no getpwnam().
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  bud crandall

  1 year ago

  What kind of security does erlang have, I need cyrpto type security, for credit cards.
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  art

  1 year ago

  take a look at
  http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/crypto.html#info-0
  and kreditor
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  Olivier

  10 months ago

  Hi,
  Where did you find out about the "binary" option to inet:setopts/2 ? I can't find anything about it in the official documentation. I figured out by experimenting that the default type for recv seems to be string, and the binary option switches to binary, but I'm curious about other possibilities too.
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  Jesse

  9 months ago

  Olivier,
  
  It's somewhere in the docs, which are admittedly terrible. Sorry I can't be of more help.
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