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Sweet Elixir! A Gentle Introduction to Erlang’s Cute Younger Brother Elixir

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Ryan Cromwell introduces Elixir, a , functional distributed meta programming language inspired by Ruby and compiling to Erlang VM, covering pattern matching, pipelines and tail-call recursion.

Bio

Ryan Cromwell is a coder by trade with over 10 years of experience delivering solutions ranging from real-time customer loyalty systems to streamlined statistical process control software. Ryan works at Sparkbox Team in Dayton, OH. He is co-founder of Dayton Clean Coders, the Dayton Elixir virtual Meetup, and co-organizer of Southwest Ohio GiveCamp. cromwellhaus.com, @cromwellryan.

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Oct 12, 2014

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