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Seven More Languages: Elixir Day Three (back on the wagon)
Oh dear. After telling myself I wouldn’t I somehow managed to lunch out my Seven Languages in Seven Weeks oddyssey for 6 months. I had been most of the way through the Elixir section and then got distracted by a shiny object or something.Well, today I am back on the wagon and the way I am go …
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Seven More Languages: Elixir Day Two
Today’s installment was long and occasionaly annoying. Mostly because I felt that what I wanted to say in Elixir was on the tip of my tongue. I just didn’t quite yet have the language to say it. An occupational hazard when picking up new languages. We first looked at soome of the Elixi …
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Seven More Languages: Elixir Day One
Elixir has been getting a lot of interest recently. It's a functional, concurrent language that compiles to bytecode for the Erlang VM. As well as concurrency, it has strong support for metaprogramming with hygenic macros — think Scheme but without all the parentheses. The syntax is really p …
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