Saturday, 30 August 2008
Erlang: The Movie
While I'm on the subject of wacky tech movies, one of the most bizarre, funny, and yet highly educational YouTube movies I've ever viewed has to be Erlang: The Movie.
(Erlang is a hot language these days as multi-core and multi-processor computing becomes the norm, and people worry more and more about how to write good concurrent programs. Erlang is a language that is made for this, which makes it easy and safe to write programs that do more than one thing at once, without having to worry about the things like unreproduceable race conditions or deadlocks that can plague you with C pthreads or Java.)
