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Thu, 29 Jul 2004
Erlang plus perl plus tcl plus tk
So I got around to installing the Erlang port on one of my FreeBSD development boxes; that’s when I discovered that it depended on Perl and Tcl and Tk. Wow. Why? No idea, but I had been quite pleased until today that I had managed to avoid those three large lumps of software. If the Lisp and Scheme packages that I installed could manage without that lot, why did Erlang require them? Sigh. Ah well, it’s all there now, so I might as well have a play.
And this is totally off-topic here, but I can’t be bothered starting something new. A couple of great quotes from one of Paul Graham’s recent papers, Great Hackers:
Working on nasty little problems makes you stupid.
VCs are mistaken to look for the next Microsoft, because no startup can be the next Microsoft unless some other company is prepared to bend over at just the right moment and be the next IBM.
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