Anybody using Erlang?  It looks interesting, and potentially really 
useful, and industrial strength with lots of good libraries, and has 
some interesting metaprogramming possibility, but I don't see any 
particularly good textbooks on it, and learning a wad of libraries from 
man pages is difficult sometimes.  On the other hand, using magic 
cookies for authentication over remote links is so 1980's, so I have to 
wonder how industrial it is outside its own niche.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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> Anybody using Erlang?  It looks interesting, and potentially really 
> useful, and industrial strength with lots of good libraries, and has some 
> interesting metaprogramming possibility, but I don't see any particularly 
> good textbooks on it, and learning a wad of libraries from man pages is 
> difficult sometimes.  On the other hand, using magic cookies for 
> authentication over remote links is so 1980's, so I have to wonder how 
> industrial it is outside its own niche.
>
I don't, but isn't Wings in Erlang?

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Tim Attwood wrote:
> I don't, but isn't Wings in Erlang? 

Yep.  I'm more interested in it for its target regime, namely reliable 
distributed programming.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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