Concurrent Programming in Erlang

by Robert Virding, Mike Williams

Erlang is a concurrent, functional programming language designed for programming large industrial real-time systems. The language is untyped and has a pattern matching syntax. Functions are written as a set of recursion equations and the language has explicit concurrency and asynchronous message passing. Written in a tutorial style, this book emphasizes learning through example, illustrating a number of problems in designing and programming concurrent fault-tolerant real-time systems. This edition features new chapters on distributed programming, distributed programming techniques and distributed data.

Genres: Programming

358 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1993

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the concepts remain useful, the code unfortunately suffers from bit rot due to improvements in Erlang. It's dated and rather unnecessary now that Joe Armstrong's own Erlang book was just published by the Pragmatic Programmers.

[Alex Poovathingal · Rating 5 out of 5]

A pragmatic and concise introduction to Erlang.

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although out of date in its technical details, the later chapters contain some excellent examples of distributed software construction in Erlang.