Annuncio con immenso piacere che sul numero di Giugno di Computer Programming potete trovare il primo dei miei tre articoli su Erlang. In questo numero ho trattato principalmente la parte sintattica del linguaggio, facendo qualche esempio e introducendo il lettore alla programmazione funzionale. Correte in edicola! 
Translation for all the non-italian readers: in the June issue of Computer Programming, the leading italian programming magazine, you can find the first of three articles I wrote about Erlang. It’s a great introduction to the language, so if you have an italian friend who wants to know more about this language, tell him to buy the magazine! 
Yesterday I’ve been at the PHPDay 2007 in Verona with my Nimboo friend Giovanni Intini, during the travel to Verona on the train, we played with Erlang, Ruby and PHP writing small programs to compute Pythagorean triplets and comparing performances.
I don’t want to tell you yet who’s the winner, you will find the results of our tests in Giovanni’s blog.
Update: the battle continues here.
After seeing the Peter Norvig’s implementation of a Spell corrector in 20 lines of python code, I would like to add an Erlang implementation to the perl6 one made by Gabriele.
Unfortunately I’m blocked by an issue I’m still trying to solve. (update: thanks to your suggestions I’ve solved the “folding” issue)
Here’s what I did until now:
Jarosław Rzeszótko wrote this great article where he builds a POP3 to RSS gateway in Erlang. Very nice stuff and well written article on the topic. He’s also running for the Erlang blogging contest and I’m sure he has good chances to win!
