20bits by Jesse Farmer

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Hey, I'm Jesse Farmer, a computer programmer and entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. These are my thoughts. I hope you find them useful.

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Erlang: A Generalized TCP Server

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In my last few articles about Erlang we've covered the basics of network programming with gen_tcp and Erlang/OTP's gen_server, or generic server, module. Let's combine the two.

Erlang: An Introduction to Records

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Internally Erlang has only two internal compound data types: lists and tuples. Neither of these data types support named access, so creating associative arrays a la PHP, Ruby, or Python is an impossibility without additional libraries.