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I would have added "maybe" at the end of the title :-)

Is it right to say that Erlang and Prolog are actually that close as stated at the beginning of the article ?

As far as I am aware Erlang does not run the unification algorithm and it is very different, you can, for instance, assign variables.

I don't think it is right to compare the two as close languages as it is claimed but I would be interested in your opinion

Yeah, but I don't want to fill up my laptop's disk space though, that is why an external drive would work better.

>Something that can do versioning would be ideal so you can view the differences over time Is there any Linux based software you can think of ?

It is probably the latter, I am even considering a tape drive

We are far apart in our view of the industry and that's OK, but I feel I work in the fashion industry, not an engineering one, which is what I wanted to stress.

There is too much confusion around and way too much marketing, it all seems new and it is not, which does not mean it is good, it depends.

eheh. Mee to

I wish there were more people like you around. The real mess I see coming, or, I should say, which has already happened, is summarised below.

As the IT world loses the freedom through the "productarisation" of everything and the wish of an unreasonable, lofty simplification our jobs become un-skilled, payed less, and a bunch of inept lead the way towards the disaster.

The rub is that there is not single answer, each IT project has its own peculiarities and history, I mean, of course there are patterns but Docker won't solve all problems, nor Python nor Go. It depends.

To unravel the complexity of the current problem at hand you need expert people, not only products and buzz words seller/buyer.

I argue that sometimes by hiring good people you would probably save the money you spend an all the hassle, licenses, bug, that those "mature" products come with.

There are some wise of companies around but the reality I see is that they over-spend on their IT infrastracture as the management, who has no idea, follows the craze.

All this will come back as more and more of those companies go burst, but we need to wise up not to get hurt ourselves.

The rub is that to run a middle-big infrastructure, or to run a software company, you do need competent people and there are not too many of them around, I am afraid.

All striving to conform, what a waste of minds. Poor people, they should rebel.

I wonder who will be next, we are right in the middle of a tech bubble, too much fluff around.

The company wasn't making a lot of money and wasn't booming, otherwise it would not have been sold out, I reckon.

>Of course, as every programmer, I live in constant fear that I am part of the plumbing crowd waiting to be exposed.

How true, the 50% of jobs I see are actually semi-skilled overpayed jobs which won't last. In many cases you configure somebody's else product and you manage it at best, it won't last. It is already happening.

Absolutely amazing advice! If you get to the point where you think that asking as a good idea .. oh gosh.

That Uni course is rubbish

At uni I went through a module on compilers which basically covered all the Dragon book.

I then followed this on-line course where you actually write a compiler for the COOL language. It has been one of the best educative things I've ever done in my life and I can't help recommending it.

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...

I'd love to do something like that in my professional career but unfortunately 90% of the time I ended up carrying out way less interesting work (writing application for end users).