Fireside Chat

Garrett Smith will host a chat with Jane Walerud and the Erlang co-inventors Mike, Joe and Robert.

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LFE: A Real Lisp in the Erlang Ecosystem

Why yet another lisp? This talk will look at some of the basic properties of the Erlang VM and OTP and how they affect implementing languages on it. It will show what makes existing lisps, even Clojure, a bad fit. LFE (Lisp Flavoured Erlang) has been designed to run efficiently on the Erlang VM and at the same time be a "real lisp" providing Lisp's good bits. We will describe the language and how it uses the properties of the system to run efficiently and interact seamlessly with other languages running in the Erlang environment.

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Training: Complete OTP

More details on this training course can be found here.

About Robert

Robert Virding is Principal Language Expert at Erlang Solutions Ltd. While at Ericsson AB, Robert was one of the original members of the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, and co-inventor of the Erlang language. He took part in the original system design and contributed much of the original libraries, as well as to the current compiler.

While at the lab he also did a lot of work on the implementation of logic and functional languages and on garbage collection. He has also worked as an entrepreneur and was one of the co-founders of one of the first Erlang startups (Bluetail). Robert also worked a number of years at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) Modelling and Simulations Group. He co-authored the first book (Prentice-Hall) on Erlang, and is regularly invited to teach and present throughout the world.

GitHub: rvirding

Twitter: @rvirding

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