Getting Into Erlang & PDX.erl

I finally got down to actually doing something with Erlang recently. I tackled a couple of the ruby quiz puzzles. It started off as a real struggle, my procedural habits wouldn't go down without a fight. It's interesting how expressing 95% of the conditions as patterns influences the structure of the code. Erlang's pattern matching also all but alleviates the need for an xUnit implementation: X = 2 outright fails if 2 isn't bound to X.

In a fit of enthusiasm I started a discussion group for a Portland Erlang User Group (PDX.erl). There are 10 other people curious enough to sign up for the group. Who knows, a couple of us will get it together to organise a Erlang Coding Dojo in near future.