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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:51:32 +0900
From: "Edward J. Yoon" <edwardyoon@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Have you seen the Erlang project?
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Great!!

BTW, This is some opinion from the hama mailing list.

> It's alright if you're going to rewrite Hadoop using Erlang, but it's
> not fit for Erlang to be a a front layer, AFAIK.
>
> Chanwit

/Edward

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Steve Loughran <stevel@apache.org> wrote:
> Edward J. Yoon wrote:
>>
>> http://www.erlang.org/about.html
>
>> It seems interesting to me. And, I'm think about erlang interface to
>> hadoop/hama.
>
> Its an interesting language for coding in, very prology, string handling is
> almost worst than C, but it has good parallel and functional coding
> features. I'm doing some spare time erlangy stuff, and I have colleagues
> that have stopped saying "Ruby is the future" and now say "Erlang is the
> future".
>
>> Has anyone considered doing this?
>
> In Apache, CouchDB is built on Erlang; there's also a MR framework from
> Nokia (Disco?) that is now OSS. Also, check out ErlyBird for doing Erlang
> coding.
>
>
>


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Best regards, Edward J. Yoon
edwardyoon@apache.org
http://blog.udanax.org