erlang - the magic of concurrency

joe armstrong did an awesome job in describing the features of erlang and OTP and since i read the book i am kind of infected. so what happened?
i looked around for jabber servers as i needed one for a corporate setup and found ejabberd again. it is a really stable jabber daemon used in many large scale deployments. the thing that annoyed me every time i used ejabberd was the quite strange config file syntax. instead of being annoyed again i started to dig into it. i did some of the tutorials on the erlang page and tried to figure out what the fuzz about concurrent programming was all about. i have to confess, the language looks strange when you first look at it. the virus, however, infected me and i bought the "programming erlang" book.
after having read this excellent book i started to port my domain related libraries and currently work on a erlang based domain API. it looks promising even though my progress is not that fast as i wished. the language has its advantages but honestly string processing is not one of erlangs strengths. nevertheless i mastered this and have a first rudimentary domain search up and running. nothing fancy but concurrent and on top of OTP.

"Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World" (Joe Armstrong)

a really viral book, i warn every programmer, this could really lead to programming erlang :-)

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