For some reason, the Gentoo install of erlang put the man pages into man sections that ended in “erl”. For example, instead a directory named man3 for the 3rd man page section, it’s man3erl.
I wrote a quick alias erlman that only searches these erlang man page sections.
~/.bashrc
alias erlman="man -S 1erl:3erl:4erl:6erl"
My journey into the world of Erlang is progressing nicely. I’m really excited by the possibilities the language offers.
I wanted to get more perspective on functional programming by learning another functional language as well. Since my forays into LISP over the years never amounted to much, I decided to try out Haskell. [...]
On pages 29-30 of “Programming Erlang” by Joe Armstrong, the author goes over character strings. Erlang uses Latin-1 as it’s character set. At first, Terminal.app wasn’t showing the non-US / ASCII characters.
There’s a two-step process to solve this:
Terminal->Window Settings…->Display->”Character Set Encoding” set to “Western (ISO Latin 1)”
Set the environment variable LC_ALL to “en_US” [...]
I’m working through the Programming Erlang book that my friend zuzu recommended to me. Forty-six pages in, and so far, so good.
I did, however, just have my mind blown. I was going through an example for creating a for-loop-like function, because erlang doesn’t have a for-loop. “Well,” I thought, “that’s interesting that [...]
I found this post containing a script that svn checkouts a fairly functional erlang TextMate bundle. Neat-o!
I edited the bundle to allow it to update itself, using a slightly modified form of the original script.
Bundles->Bundle Editor->Show Bundle Editor
Click on the menu entry text “erlang”
Drag a new separator to the bottom of the erlang bundle [...]
I believe erlang is quickly becoming that “language I always should’ve learned” language — and all this time, I thought that language was LISP.