Top "Erlang" questions

Erlang is a general-purpose, garbage-collected programming language and runtime environment, with built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

How do you write a fun that's recursive in Erlang?

I'm trying to write a recursive fun in an Erlang shell, but I keep getting an unbound variable exception: 1> …

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Lisp and Erlang Atoms, Ruby and Scheme Symbols. How useful are they?

How useful is the feature of having an atom data type in a programming language? A few programming languages have …

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How set Erlang node name, when run an Erlang application by basho rebar from command line

I have compiled my Erlang application by using basho rebar which makes an stand-alone escript executable file. I run it …

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Haskell for a server?

With regards to making a game server, it seems Erlang always comes up as a language that is "built for …

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In Erlang, when do I use ; or , or .?

I have been trying to learn Erlang and have been running into some problems with ending lines in functions and …

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RabbitMQ not starting with message "init terminating in do_boot, noproc" on Ubuntu 18.04

I cannot seem to start or install my RabbitMQ server anymore for my Ubuntu 18.04 anymore. I tried to remove and …

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How to add a node to an mnesia cluster?

I'm an erlang and mnesia newbie.. How do I add a new disc_only_copies node to an mnesia database …

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RabbitMQ install issue on Centos 5.5

I've been trying to get rabbitmq-server-2.4.0 up and running on Centos 5.5 on an Amazon AWS instance. My instance uses the …

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Functional languages (Erlang, F#, Haskell, Scala)

1) Are functional languages suited for web applications development? 2) Are functional languages suited for business/ERP/CRM type of applications?

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Garbage collection and memory management in Erlang

I want to know technical details about garbage collection (GC) and memory management in Erlang/OTP. But, I cannot find …

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