It has been years since I actually was allowed (asked?) to write any production code that goes into any of Volvo vehicle, since we buy a majority of our in-vehicle software from suppliers. Besides that, most of the in-house code we do nowadays are auto-generated from Simulink and Stateflow models.
Mostly I have reviewed what others have put in our vehicles, which is not nearly as rewarding. And this usually only happens when there is a problem, usually not a bug fix but rather more complicated, like real-time scheduling or improper use or configuration of the basic (or platform) software.
Since I will take a more active part in the a project course at the IT University which uses Erlang I think I will look into that. Erlang has some features which appeals to me personally:
- Support for asynchronous parallel processing, ideal for multi-core processors
- Functional paradigm, in contrast to the dominating OO paradigm, so I need to brush up old knowledge of things I haven't used since graduating in 1993.
- Freeware from the erlang website
- Access to some experts on the language
Confession: I'm not really that skilled OO programmer either, I could probably not write a Java program if my life depended on it. I'm too old school, almost all professional programming I've done have been in C and Fortran, with some Assembler and IDL.
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