Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World

by Joe Armstrong

Erlang solves one of the most pressing problems facing developers today: how to write reliable, concurrent, high-performance systems. It's used worldwide by companies who need to produce reliable, efficient, and scalable applications. Invest in learning Erlang now. Moore's Law is the observation that the amount you can do on a single chip doubles every two years. But Moore's Law is taking a detour. Rather than producing faster and faster processors, companies such as Intel and AMD are producing multi-core devices: single chips containing two, four, or more processors. If your programs aren't concurrent, they'll only run on a single processor at a time. Your users will think that your code is slow. Erlang is a programming language designed for building highly parallel, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. It has been used commercially for many years to build massive fault-tolerated systems that run for years with minimal failures. Erlang programs run seamlessly on multi-core computers: this means your Erlang program should run a lot faster on a 4 core processor than on a single core processor, all without you having to change a line of code. Erlang combines ideas from the world of functional programming with techniques for building fault-tolerant systems to make a powerful language for building the massively parallel, networked applications of the future. This book presents Erlang and functional programming in the familiar Pragmatic style. And it's written by Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang. It includes example code you'll be able to build upon. In addition, the book contains the full source code for two interesting applications:

Genres: Programming, Technology, Computer Science, Software, Technical, Nonfiction, Computers

519 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 2007

Reviews

[Sri]

Membaca hingga bab 4 saja :). Cukup untuk membuat plugin kecil buat ejabberd.
Menarik membaca buku bahasa pemrograman dari pionirnya. Sebelum membaca buku ini sempat membaca tutorial online. Hasilnya, ya bisa sih kutak kutik di command prompt-nya tapi.... mengapa begini mengapa begitunya jadi ga paham-paham. Dengan membaca buku ini jadi lebih paham filosofinya *jiah*. Sayang hanya membaca sampai bab 4 saja (:|. Sekarang malah harus belajar Java ME dulu. Suatu saat nanti akan belajar Erlang lagi, yay! Demi konkurensi dan distribusi :D. Terlebih lagi demi keanehan functional programming.