I m in a group at work reading Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce A. Tate and we are having a presentation on one language each week. I m partially responsible for Erlang in 2 weeks and am looking for a good demo app that would show off the strengths of Erlang. I plan to go through the programming exercises in the book, but am looking for that little, interesting app for the demo. I will need to be able to write it in just a few hours once I become more familiar with the language. Any suggestions are welcome.
Is there an idiomatic way to order function clauses in Erlang?
For functions where the ordering of the clauses is unimportant, is it base case last: all(Pred, [Head|Tail]) -> case Pred(Head) of true -> all(Pred, Tail); false -> false end; ...