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New Full-time Erlang Jobs in Chicago

I have an opening for a few Erlang programmers/system architects to work on supply/demand aggregation technology. This is a cool application for FP. I am posting this to feel the waters a little and see if there is anyone out there who might be interested before I pursue other hiring channels.

We're looking at cloud hosting, distributed database technology, and a kind of algorithmic trading. I've been really happy applying the technology in this space and want to find some like-minded people who don't mind being paid well.

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purposeful retrograde language design

Objective Modula-2 is apparently meant to let people do development for Apple devices without having to use the unsafer Objective C language. The creators explicitly wanted a language that was a little bit less advanced.

The reason why Modula-2 was chosen as a base language over other Pascal family languages is also very simple. Since the heavy lifting in the new language will be done using the Smalltalk derived object model and Cocoa or GNUstep, there is no need for any advanced features in the base language. Consequently, the ideal candidate for the base language would be a small language which lacks the features that will be added by the Smalltalk derived object system.