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Setup Aquamacs for Erlang

16 Dec

A quick note about how to setup Aquamacs (Cocoa Emacs distribution) for coding Erlang (the next kid in town).

I assume you install Erlang via Macports so if you install it via any other mean, something will vary (I used to install it, along with everything else, from source; but currently the Macports is just easier).

The setup is simply adding the following lines into your ~/.emacs file

(setq load-path (cons "/opt/local/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.4/emacs" load-path))
(setq erlang-root-dir "/opt/local/lib/erlang")
(setq exec-path (cons "/opt/local/lib/erlang/bin" exec-path))
(require 'erlang-start)

Please note that the actual path may vary from installation to installation (version numbers, most probably). So check yours.

 
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My Dad’s further comment:

16 Dec

Same as previous post, here’s my dad’s further comment on education, via e-mail. Note: Highlights are my own, on what I think are important messages.

Dear Son,
I saw my comments in your bloc.
I would like to add that our education system or our culture lead to surface knowledge. We do not go down deep to learn the basic behind.
I will give you an example.
If you read the research on life science these days you will see so many cluster analysis of similarity. This could be similarity among several varieties in any species. It is so easy to make these dendrograms using so many statistical packages available free on the web.
But, do we know the basic behind those calculations?.
It is fine for the users or technician. But, how about those with prestigious doctorate degree.
So, where are we going in education?
Love,
Dad

 
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