Erlang Programming

By admin • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

Erlang Programming
by: Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson

Erlang Programming
By Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson

Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 494
Publication Date: 2009-06-26
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0596518188
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780596518189

Product Description:

This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you’ll learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang, regardless of your programming background or experience. Written by leaders of the international Erlang community — and based on their training material — Erlang Programming focuses on the language’s syntax and semantics, and explains pattern matching, proper lists, recursion, debugging, networking, and concurrency. This book helps you:

Understand the strengths of Erlang and why its designers included specific features Learn the concepts behind concurrency and Erlang’s way of handling it Write efficient Erlang programs while keeping code neat and readable Discover how Erlang fills the requirements for distributed systems Add simple graphical user interfaces with little effort Learn Erlang’s tracing mechanisms for debugging concurrent and distributed systems Use the built-in Mnesia database and other table storage features

Erlang Programming provides exercises at the end of each chapter and simple examples throughout the book. You’ll also find an overview of the most important libraries.

Summary: Good so far
Rating: 5

First off, this is an o’rielly book and they always have coupons you can google for, as much as 40% off.

I was reading joe’s pragmatic programming book and after the first 150 pages I got kind of flustered and decided to read this one. This book adds quite a few small details not mentioned in joe’s book. Joe starts you off faster with a small shopping list example that seems to never die. Then just breezes through funs, guards, list comprehension, and try/catch statements with only very short examples. Since this book was written and released much later I bet it got to evaluate and improve upon some of the shortcomings people complain about in joe’s book. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily better but it definitely helped clarify many points I had issues with in joe’s book. I can’t really compare it to joe’s book without the bias of having read his first when I didn’t know anything about erlang.

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