Erlang Flashcards
In Erlang, the main approach to concurrency is ANSWER.
actors
In the Erlang community, ANSWER code refers to replacing pieces of your application without stopping your application.
hot-swapping
An unusual built-in constant construct in Erlang lets us write «4:3,1:3» to represent the value ANSWER.
!
octal 41
decimal 33
hexidecimal 21
Many syntax features of Erlang, such as ending statements with a period, reflect the influence of the programming language ANSWER.
Prolog
In Erlang, you can link two processes together. Then when one dies, it sends ANSWER to its twin.
an exit signal
The main programming paradigm in Erlang is ANSWER programming.
functional
In Ruby, you would group methods into a class. In Erlang, you group functions into ANSWER.
a module
The idea that when a process has an error, it is up to a monitoring process to determine what to do about the problem is referred to by the motto ANSWER in Erlang.
Let it crash