Comments on: Erlang Challenge Followup http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/02/08/erlang-challenge-followup/ Adventures in Open Source Erlang Fri, 16 May 2008 11:03:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Yariv’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Erlang Challenge http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/02/08/erlang-challenge-followup/#comment-97106 Yariv’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Erlang Challenge Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:14:12 +0000 http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/02/08/erlang-challenge-followup/#comment-97106 [...] Update: please read the followup. [...] [...] Update: please read the followup. [...]

]]> By: Yariv http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/02/08/erlang-challenge-followup/#comment-96928 Yariv Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:36:04 +0000 http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/02/08/erlang-challenge-followup/#comment-96928 Tim, thanks for explaining your point of view. I intentionally made the challenge over-the-top biased towards Erlang, but that's because I wanted to drive home what makes Erlang different from other languages. Anyway, no offense taken, but I'm happy PG removed the interpretive part of the title :) Tim, thanks for explaining your point of view. I intentionally made the challenge over-the-top biased towards Erlang, but that’s because I wanted to drive home what makes Erlang different from other languages. Anyway, no offense taken, but I’m happy PG removed the interpretive part of the title :)

]]> By: Tim Bates http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/02/08/erlang-challenge-followup/#comment-96904 Tim Bates Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:59:29 +0000 http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/02/08/erlang-challenge-followup/#comment-96904 Yariv, I'm the one who posted your challenge to news.yc and reddit with the "snide" comment, not because I thought you'd written it in a particularly sarcastic way, but because it was so obviously over-the-top biased towards Erlang - in a similar way to how the Arc Challenge was biased towards Arc but taken to an extreme. I'm an Erlanger myself, so I understand your enthusiasm for Erlang but even so I couldn't tell on first reading whether you were being serious or poking fun at the Arc Challenge. That's why I put a question mark against the editorial comment which pg so helpfully removed. neilk on news.yc had it right when he said "maybe the requirement of spawning a million threads doesn't seem like a cruel joke to you, but it is to anyone who has to work in a language other than Erlang." I apologise that I misunderstood your intentions, but the title I chose did what I intended, which was to provoke discussion about Erlang's strengths and the usefulness of "challenges" that so obviously play to the strengths of a particular language. Tim. Yariv,
I’m the one who posted your challenge to news.yc and reddit with the “snide” comment, not because I thought you’d written it in a particularly sarcastic way, but because it was so obviously over-the-top biased towards Erlang - in a similar way to how the Arc Challenge was biased towards Arc but taken to an extreme.

I’m an Erlanger myself, so I understand your enthusiasm for Erlang but even so I couldn’t tell on first reading whether you were being serious or poking fun at the Arc Challenge. That’s why I put a question mark against the editorial comment which pg so helpfully removed.

neilk on news.yc had it right when he said “maybe the requirement of spawning a million threads doesn’t seem like a cruel joke to you, but it is to anyone who has to work in a language other than Erlang.”

I apologise that I misunderstood your intentions, but the title I chose did what I intended, which was to provoke discussion about Erlang’s strengths and the usefulness of “challenges” that so obviously play to the strengths of a particular language.

Tim.

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