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Erlang 4: Types (or lack thereof)

Details: Category: How-Tos; Published: Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:25

Introduction

Comments to the book "Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good" by Fred Hébert, Chapter 4 - Types (or lack thereof). Pattern matching is much easier to achieve in Erlang than in many other languages, but the syntax takes some time to get used to. Instead of if-else or similar conditional branching, in Erlang you simply use functional declarations with a pattern. Learning goals: Understand how Erlang's "crash first" philosophy and always accounting for errors works with dynamical typing to keep things safe. Challenges: See how the lack of static types does not mean that Erlang code is error prone.

Erlang 3: Syntax in Functions

Details: Category: How-Tos; Published: Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:25

Introduction

Comments to the book "Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good" by Fred Hébert, Chapter 3 - Syntax in Functions. Pattern matching is much easier to achieve in Erlang than in many other languages, but the syntax takes some time to get used to. Instead of if-else or similar conditional branching, in Erlang you simply use functional declarations with a pattern. Learning goals: Being able to create pattern matching, retaining unbound vs unboundvariables, and how to work with guards. Challenges: Differences between unbound vs unboundvariables. Fully understanding how to work with guards.

Erlang 1: Starting Out

Details: Category: How-Tos; Published: Monday, 26 March 2018 16:20

Comments to the book "Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good" by Fred Hébert, Chapter 1 - Starting Out. Challenges: Remembering relevant shell commands and understanding immutability. Important learning goals: Getting to know the shell and understanding the basic syntax.

Erlang 2: Modules

Details: Category: How-Tos; Published: Tuesday, 03 April 2018 17:25

Introduction

Comments to the book "Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good" by Fred Hébert, Chapter 2 - Modules. Understanding how modules work and how they should be organized. Learning goals: How to create a module. How to export functions in modules.

git-lfs - Git For Big Files

Details: Category: How-Tos; Published: Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:21

Git puts the upper file size limit at 100 MB. So what can you do if you have files bigger than that? Git Large File Storage (Git LFS) is an open source extension to Git that allows you to work with large text-files. It lets you store files up to 2 GB in size.