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The LFE Blog Has a New Face

First stages of a refresh for all of the LFE web properties ...

We've been sitting on this redesign for a while, initially planned for an LFE docs site refresh (based on the GitHub docs site design). However, we got tired of waiting around on all the CSS debugging for that project. The blog site has fewer requirements, so we rolled it out last night.


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Duncan McGreggor | September 18, 2015 | Tags : site web news design


LFE Friday - erl_tar:create/2

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | September 18, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


LFE Friday - c:pid/3

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | September 5, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


LFE Friday - c:i/0

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | August 22, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


LFE Friday - c:regs/0

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | August 15, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


LFE Friday - c:m/1

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | August 10, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


LFE Friday - c:xm/1

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | August 2, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


LFE Friday - ordsets:is_subset/2

This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the Erlang Thursday series by Steven Proctor. This week's translator: Robert Virding.


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Robert Virding | July 25, 2015 | Tags : lfe friday lfe erlang


A Quicksort LFE Assist

Helping LFE/Erlang newcomers avoid pattern-matching and recursion gotchas

There was a quicksort question posted to the LFE mail list this morning, and since I had a little time and have been wanting to try my hand at LFE more lately, I decided to answer. Upon request, this has been converted into a post for the LFE blog.


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Fred Hébert | July 18, 2015 | Tags : answers questions mail list algorithms


Lisp Machine Flavors for LFE

Long, long ago I did an implementation of MIT Lisp Machine Flavors for Portable Standard Lisp. This was a very interesting project but it is now all lost in antiquity.


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Robert Virding | July 18, 2015 | Tags : lisp machine flavors