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Interview with Robert Virding, creator of Lisp Flavored Erlang, an alien technology masterpiece

Interview with Robert Virding, creator of Lisp Flavored Erlang, an alien technology masterpiece

This time I interviewed Robert Virding, co-creator of Erlang and creator of Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE). I am an Erlang developer and Lisp…
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Federico CarroneFeb 29
Interview with Jay Kreps about Apache Kafka

Interview with Jay Kreps about Apache Kafka

This time we interviewed Jay Kreps, one of the creators of Apache Kafka. Kafka is an open source messaging system with a few design choices…
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Federico CarroneFeb 22
Interview with Jesper Louis Andersen about Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Idris, the JVM, software and…

Interview with Jesper Louis Andersen about Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Idris, the JVM, software and…

This is part II of the interview with Jesper Louis Andersen. You can read part I here. This part of the interview is mostly about Erlang…
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Federico CarroneDec 29, 2015
Interview with Jesper Louis Andersen about Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Idris, the JVM, software and…

Interview with Jesper Louis Andersen about Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Idris, the JVM, software and…

In this occasion we interviewed Jesper Louis Andersen, a type theorist with lot of practical knowledge and experience. His blog (you should…
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Federico CarroneDec 28, 2015
Efene: an Erlang VM language that embraces the Zen of Python

Efene: an Erlang VM language that embraces the Zen of Python

In this ocasion we interviewed Mariano Guerra, creator of Efene. Efene is “an alternative syntax for the Erlang Programming Language…
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Federico CarroneNov 26, 2015
How to earn your Clojure white belt

How to earn your Clojure white belt

I tend to think that if I do not know how to implement something then I do not undestand completely how it works. That is why I want to…
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Federico CarroneSep 6, 2015
Interview with Nenad Rakocevic about Red, a Rebol inspired programming language

Interview with Nenad Rakocevic about Red, a Rebol inspired programming language

After our last interview with Brian McKenna for This is not a Monad tutorial we interviewed Nenad Rakocevic, creator of the Red programming…
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Federico CarroneAug 28, 2015
Interview with Brian McKenna about Roy, Purescript, Haskell, Idris and dependent types

Interview with Brian McKenna about Roy, Purescript, Haskell, Idris and dependent types

As promised in our last interview for This is not a Monad tutorial we interviewed Brian McKenna, creator of the Roy programming language…
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Federico CarroneAug 26, 2015
Is Ruby.nil? or Ruby.hype.dead? A current overview of Ruby 

Is Ruby.nil? or Ruby.hype.dead? A current overview of Ruby 

The main languages I’ve used this year
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Federico CarroneMar 26, 2014
Erlang and distributed systems expert gives his views on BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner…

Erlang and distributed systems expert gives his views on BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner…

Eric Merritt, Erlang and distributed systems expert, gives his views on BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems and new technologies ¶…
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Federico CarroneAug 8, 2015
Become an Erlang Cowboy and tame the Wild Wild Web — Part I

Become an Erlang Cowboy and tame the Wild Wild Web — Part I

Erlang: From zero to coding a commenting system
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Federico CarroneJun 18, 2014
Harvey, an operating system with Plan 9's shadow

Harvey, an operating system with Plan 9's shadow

This is not a Monad tutorial interviewed Álvaro Jurado about the development of Harvey OS (code in github). If you haven’t yet played…
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Federico CarroneJul 24, 2015
Interview with Timothy Baldridge, Pixie’s language creator

Interview with Timothy Baldridge, Pixie’s language creator

We interviewed Timothy Baldridge, creator of Pixie, a small fast, native lisp with magical powers. We hope you try it out!
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Federico CarroneDec 8, 2014
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