Comments on: Network Programming in Erlang

By: Nick Gerakines

Nick Gerakines — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:05:53 +0000

I think he meant to say “so-called popular languages like Java, Ruby or Python”

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:13:02 +0000

Olivier,

It’s somewhere in the docs, which are admittedly terrible. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:10:22 +0000

Hi,
Where did you find out about the “binary” option to inet:setopts/2 ? I can’t find anything about it in the official documentation. I figured out by experimenting that the default type for recv seems to be string, and the binary option switches to binary, but I’m curious about other possibilities too.

By: art

art — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:41:17 +0000

take a look at
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/crypto.html#info-0
and kreditor

By: bud crandall

bud crandall — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:50:39 +0000

What kind of security does erlang have, I need cyrpto type security, for credit cards.

By: Spruce Moose

Spruce Moose — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:36:34 +0000

Heh – I remember Beej’s guide. I thought it was pretty cool way back in the mid-1990’s. (-:

I did a similar thing learning about the gen_server and gen_tcp modules except I thought I would re-implement the finger daemon. I got all the way through the network and server code and finally discovered that Erlang doesn’t have an interface to all the POSIX user and group functions so no getpwnam().

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:24:40 +0000

Greg,

A truly devastating argument. ;)

By: Greg M

Greg M — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:10:23 +0000

“so-called modern languages like Java, Ruby, or Python”

What? Who so-called them that? None of those were even modern when they were designed, let alone now.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:55:59 +0000

Blaxter,

Glad to be of service. There’s a real lack of information about Erlang on the web outside of the official documentation.

By: Blaxter

Blaxter — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:54:33 +0000

I’m right now also learning Erlang (with programming erlang of Joe Amstrong :D). Cool examples, thanks!