Erlang solves one of the most pressing problems facing developers today: how to write reliable, concurrent, high-performance systems. It's used wor...
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Aug 11, 2010
Keyer
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It was a while since I wrote my first post. The reason is that I'm reading books parallel and it takes time to finish one in 100%. Although I'm digging trough some interesting materials since October which surely deserve mentioning here, the book I want to write about today hijacked my time pritty well last month, making me read it from the cover to cover in no time.
So here it goes: another book from the Pragmatic Bookshelf - "Programming Erlang - Software for a Concurrent World" More...
So here it goes: another book from the Pragmatic Bookshelf - "Programming Erlang - Software for a Concurrent World" More...
Aug 12, 2009
David
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A book with big cons and big pros. I think it will be easiest if I simply list the cons and the pros.
Let's start with the cons, all of which I attribute to editors asleep at the wheel or on crack:
1. The book is laid out in a reader-hostile manner: topics are introduced completely out-of-order. You'll be skipping around a lot to find in-depth answers for anything.
2. The index is worthless. You're rolling the dice when you try to find a particular topic. Chances are g More...
Let's start with the cons, all of which I attribute to editors asleep at the wheel or on crack:
1. The book is laid out in a reader-hostile manner: topics are introduced completely out-of-order. You'll be skipping around a lot to find in-depth answers for anything.
2. The index is worthless. You're rolling the dice when you try to find a particular topic. Chances are g More...
Apr 18, 2009
Dale
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This is the definitive book on Erlang, written by Joe Armstrong, the creator of the Erlang language. The book is clearly written, with lots of small examples, and paced for the beginning Erlang programmer.
Erlang takes a little getting used to. It is a functional language, meaning that functions in general are unable to cause side-effects. For example, 'variables' are in one of 2 states: their initial state is 'unbound', their final state is 'has some value that can never change'. Att More...
Erlang takes a little getting used to. It is a functional language, meaning that functions in general are unable to cause side-effects. For example, 'variables' are in one of 2 states: their initial state is 'unbound', their final state is 'has some value that can never change'. Att More...
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May 01, 2009
Richie
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Nice book on Erlang language with some cool examples. I think these kinds of languages are the future of programming
Jun 04, 2009
Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong (2007)
Oct 31, 2010
Michael
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Very good introduction to Erlang, covers all the important basics. Written in an easy to follow way, with mostly interesting examples and some exercises for the reader.
Sep 02, 2011
Adam
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excellent introduction to programming in Erlang. comprehensive, and well put together. Glosses over some of the details of how OTP apps are typically structured (but provides pointers to the right material.)
I would love to see this book updated to include some more modern day examples of where Erlang is being used and tools for building Erlang applications (like Rebar).
I would love to see this book updated to include some more modern day examples of where Erlang is being used and tools for building Erlang applications (like Rebar).
Apr 05, 2011
Oleg
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Great introduction to a beautiful language. Just the right size, involving informal style - plus comes from the language author imself!
Dec 01, 2010
Bill
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For experienced programmers, it's a gem of a language-learning book. Up the learning curve smoothly.
Dec 17, 2009
Matthew
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Excellent into into Erlang, definitely the future of concurrent programming.
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