Bryan Hunter and OJ Reeves Program in Erlang
Carl and Richard talk to Bryan Hunter and OJ Reeves about programming in Erlang. Erlang is a language built by the telecommunications industry for maximizing concurrency, distribution and reliability. If you're looking to develop applications that take advantage of parallelism, you owe it to yourself to look at Erlang!
Guests:
Bryan Hunter
Bryan Hunter is a geek, a partner at Firefly Logic, the founder of NashFP, and a Microsoft MVP in F#. Bryan is obsessed with functional programming, community building and Lean. He has been speaking on each of these subjects tirelessly for years at meetups, pubs, user groups, and conferences. You can say hi to Bryan on Twitter (@bryan_hunter) and see what Firefly Logic is all about here: http://fireflylogic.com
OJ Reeves
OJ Reeves started out writing C and C++ applications in Win32 and was involved with .NET since the beta versions of 1.0. He has had a passion for functional programming since his university days and have actively maintained an interest in it while working mostly with tech stacks revolving around the use of .NET/C#. He's a bit of a polyglot geek with a real passion for Erlang and has an interest in getting .NET developers to adopt it as part of their solutions. OJ currently run a small software consultancy called Functional IO in Brisbane, Australia, where he does a mixture of work including .NET, Erlang, C++ on Windows and Linux. OJ was also one of the minds behind CorrugatedIron, the .NET client for Riak.
Links:
- Writing F# Type Extensions for Nullable http://diditwith.net/2012/02/18/WritingFTypeExtensionsForNullable.aspx
- Erlang on dnrTV http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=93
- Bryan's Blog http://freshbrewedcode.com/bryanhunter/
- OJ's Blog http://buffered.io/
- Erlang the Movie on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78
- Getting Started with Erlang Video http://codeswamp.com/erlang-for-net-developers/getting-started-with-erlang/
- Toward Haskell in the Cloud http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/remote.pdf
- Erlang Web Site http://www.erlang.org/