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It was quite disappointing when Evan stepped away from active Erlang involvement. Brilliant guy, good at teaching, writes great tools.


Evan writes posts about multiple languages, IIRC. I had seen his blog earlier and read a few posts about other languages.

Another blogger with an interesting blog, who writes about multiple languages, is Chris Double. His blog is https://bluishcoder.co.nz (Bluish Coder is an anagram of his name, IIRC). I recently saw a post on his blog called "Introduction to J." The post also has a short list of links for learning J.

jsoftware.com is the J site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

J was developed by Kenneth Iverson, creator of APL.


He does write about a lot of topics, but he's stated he's not going to be doing anything with Erlang.

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-January/07...


from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/chicagoboss/ekU5gZ_T... :

> And now, the bad news: it's been a fun ride, but I am planning to retire from Erlang and Chicago Boss. But don't cry for me: I've been having success with my desktop software business (wizardmac.com) and realized that going forward I will no longer have the time to dedicate to both CB and Wizard. (Incidentally I also left grad school a couple months ago to focus on Wizard.) Finished software products require a ton of focus and work, and I just don't have the mental capacity to manage two projects at once. I wish there were more hours in the day!


Indeed! Evan was a great member of the Erlang community. In addition to those qualities, he is just a very friendly and likable dude.




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