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Agile and Scrum (big A/S) have faded into agile and scrum (little a/s). The 'One True and Holy Process' has faded into a set of processes that organization iterates on. The process should be fit to the team/organization. The team/organization should not be fit to the process. Personally, I have had good luck with a mix of kanban, with multipart estimation and Monte-Carlo simulations for projecting completion dates. So far its worked well and managing change while being able to predict completion times.

I primarily look for signs of the ability and interest in self-teaching. A front-end developer exploring the backend? Great! A backend developer playing with probabilistic systems? Super!. A java developer branching out into Scala/Clojure/Rust/Haskell etc? Even better!

For those that won't look at Github because not everyone has an account. That doesn't make sense. Whether or not the candidate has a Github account is not a litmus test, its just additional useful information. If they have an account that may tell you something useful about the candidate. If they don't have an account, then you have to rely on other approaches to get that information.

This is true as well.

Its mostly about approach. LFE (literally Lisp Flavored Erlang) is Erlang with an S-expression based syntax. Joxa is a self contained Lisp that happens to run on the Erlang VM.

Those are the core differences. Joxa also has some very clear and distinct goals of its own. Those goals are not really relevant to this discussion though.

Thats exactly what it means. Its has a very simple syntax that is a nice mix of the semantics of Core Erlang laid on very straightforward and minimal lisp. The goal was to build up more semantically complex structures in the language itself. In effect, Joxa is designed as a platform for language design more then a language in and of itself. Now I just need to find the time to get back to it.

We do ErlangCamp at cost, more or less, as a service to the community. Generally it comes out to between a 100 and 150 dollars a seat. Considering the quality of the speakers and the material this is already really inexpensive. Spil Games generosity cuts that, already insane price, in half more or less. If you have an interest in Erlang and you are in Europe its nots not to attend.

Full Disclosure - I am one of the organizers.

I will do that (its a great idea by the way)

Yes it does have scheme like names. No you do not have to sharpquote. Its a lisp 1 not a lisp 2

It depends on what you mean by not as well developed. If by that you mean maturity. Probably, its much newer and has just had its very first early alpha release.

LFE is a Lisp 2. It has ':' which is the equivalent of funcall.

the fact that the gen_server is using a gen_fsm and that that requires two processes has little or no effect on the number of simultaneous clients you can have. Unless I am missing something, I am not quite sure why you are drawing that correlation.

I hope you like the book and checkout what else we are working on : erlware.org and erlangcamp.com