Top "Erlang" questions

Is Erlang Object-Oriented?

Message-passing is a fundamental part of Erlang. Alan Kay has argued that message-passing is a concept more important than objects …

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What is the storage capacity of a Mnesia database?

Some places state 2GB period. Some places state it depends up the number of nodes.

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Hidden Features of Erlang

In the spirit of: Hidden Features of C# Hidden Features of Java Hidden Features of ASP.NET Hidden Features of …

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How to strip all blank characters in a string in Erlang?

I know there is string:strip in erlang. But its behaviour is strange for me. A = " \t\n" % two whitespaces, …

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What is an Erlang hrl file?

What is an .hrl file in Erlang/OTP? Is it some sort of library mechanism?

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Riak on Windows

I want to play with Riak http://riak.basho.com/ or a least get it running on a Windows system. …

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start erlang application from command line

I have an erlang application, compiled with rebar. Normally I start it with like this: application:start(myapp). from inside …

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Functional Programming: what is an "improper list"?

Could somebody explain what an "improper list" is? Note: Thanks to all ! All you guys rock!

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How to check if a list is empty in Erlang?

Basically I have a structure that includes a Value and a list of Ids. What I want to do is …

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Why is MPI considered harder than shared memory and Erlang considered easier, when they are both message-passing?

There's a lot of interest these days in Erlang as a language for writing parallel programs on multicore. I've heard …

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