News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it". Parent comment

Re:"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so... by saraid216 on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:07PM (#5111437)
Ironically, he takes a swipe at PHP. And the swipe is a bit silly since PHP does have a strlen function.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so... by mmcnickle on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:32PM (#5111613)
His point is that "Learn X in 10 minute" type books are so superficial as to miss even basic string functions.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so... by Joeri on Friday January 25, 2013 @04:59AM (#5114777)
Except strlen does not give you the length of a string, but the size of a string (in bytes), unless ofcourse mbstring's func_overload directive is enabled.
[ Parent | on HN ]