I'd also recommend "Scientific Babel How Science Was Done Before and After Global English" by Michael D. Gordin [0]. It goes into detail about which languages scientists have used over time.

[0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo145049...

Yes, I've had to learn this one the hard way, too. And more than once, I have to admit.

When I was working on Mathematica, a lot of effort was put in to making examples for each doc page. One example (that I didn't work on) picked at random: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomVariate.htm...

Mnesia is _not_ the storage layer for messages (except for delayed messages).

Mnesia stores vhosts, users, permissions, queue definitions and more. This is being transitioned to Khepri, which improves a lot of things (maybe most importantly netsplits) but not directly message speeds.

Yes, a stream queue type [0] is available where you can set retention, and replay messages.

[0] https://www.rabbitmq.com/stream.html

This release includes a new (native, no longer a plugin) AMQP 1.0 implementation, new quorum queue features, and a new schema data store (Khepri)

AMQP 1.0 is great - then you can, behind the right abstraction layer, use it as drop-in replacement for Azure Service Bus or similar.

They mention a book, book seems like it never came out?

Cool, they've added support for long message queue monitoring: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/7651

Related Stephen Wolfram's note when Doug Lenat passed away [0]

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/09/remembering-doug...

Discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37402925 see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354000

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