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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Mar 2011	2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	1	4
Apr 2011	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2011	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jun 2011	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2011	2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2011	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2011	2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2011	2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2011	2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2011	2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3

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waffle_ss·Dec 22, 2011

I just realized that the Elixir README file has been trimmed quite a bit. There used to be a good overview of the language there. Here is a commit that has a lot more info on it: https://github.com/josevalim/elixir/blob/530d24dcb173148da2b...

In On Erlang's Syntax

waffle_ss·Dec 22, 2011

Coming from Ruby, I was pretty excited to see Elixir[0] (and before that, Reia[1]), a language that runs on the Erlang VM but is more approachable for me syntactically and that adds some interesting features. I think it's worth checking out for anyone who wants to 'learn them some Erlang' over winter break. [0]: https://github.com/josevalim/elixir [1]: http://reia-lang.org/ (abandoned; author points user to Elixir now)

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bmunro·Dec 12, 2011

I also miss pattern matching when using other languages. As an aside I just had a look at what stage Reia is up to. The github page says that Reia is now defunct. (https://github.com/tarcieri/reia) There is also another ruby-like language on the erlang VM - Elixir (https://github.com/josevalim/elixir)

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