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Come on. Not exactly a good faith effort, is it? Why type in a rant like this, when you could have found a wonderful tutorial on Google in one tenth of the time
by Luc 13y ago
Come on. Not exactly a good faith effort, is it? Why type in a rant like this, when you could have found a wonderful tutorial on Google in one tenth of the time it took you to write this?
- gcb0 13y ago100% of erlang tutorials are for fibonnaci.
- Luc 13y agoI don't think so.
- spoiler 13y agoI never understood why every language has a plethora of fibonnaci tutorials. "DO THE FIBONNACI IN X USING Z PROGRAMMING PARADIGM" ok thanks, no more please.
- scott_s 13y agoBecause you already: 1. Know what the Fibonnaci numbers are. 2. How to compute them. 3. Said computation is straight-forward, but it requires some form of looping (either recursion or iteration) and some form of arithmetic. The combination of those traits means that if I present code to compute the Fibonnaci number for an arbitrary number in some random programming language, you can infer a lot about that programming language. In other words, the only variable in that situation is the programming language itself, which allows you to use the other information you already know to learn about that language relatively quickly.
- spoiler 13y agoI never understood why every language has a plethora of fibonnaci tutorials. "DO THE FIBONNACI IN X USING Z PROGRAMMING PARADIGM" ok thanks, no more please.
- mml 13y agoI once challenged Scott Fritchie to give an Erlang talk at our local ruby group (rum.mn) without implementing Eratosthenes' sieve, and sure enough he did, using elevators of all things. I was so impressed with Erlang that i'm still banging my head on it nearly 10 (half-hearted) years later.
- gordonguthrie 13y agoHe's doing this in good faith because I, the original poster, asked him too. This is the best answer on the page (for me).
- Luc 13y agoBut this doesn't tell you anything, other than that someone who's not interested and pressed for time won't put any effort into it. It's a trivial result.
- gordonguthrie 13y agoIt tells you that the primary route to finding out about Erlang for someone who knots nothing about it (ie Google it and have a nosey) its no bloody good.
- pdabbadabba 13y agoWell, if the question is "Why isn't Erlang more popular?" then I would think that pointing out that "someone who's not interested and pressed for time won't put any effort into it" is a perfectly fine answer. The clear implication is that the resources currently available for would-be Erlang adopters require an unrealistic level of interest and time to get them over the hump. It tells an Erlang evangelist precisely what she needs to do: do more to sell the language to people who have little time or inclination to rally dig into a language they otherwise know nothing about. (Of course, while it may be a useful answer, it is not very interesting for the rest of us.)
- Luc 13y ago> the resources currently available for would-be Erlang adopters require an unrealistic level of interest and time to get them over the hump. The person who can't be bothered to even find 'Learn You Some Erlang' also won't have the motivation to learn Erlang. It does take effort, but there now are many good resources available (unlike the situation just a few years ago).
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