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Title: Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World
ISBN: 193435600X
Author:
Joe Armstrong
Publicate Date: 2007-07-11
Publish: 2007-07-11
List Price: $36.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: The K&R of the Erlang world
I found this to be a pretty easy read overall, but of course had to re-read some sections as I was coming across new concepts.
It reminded me a lot of reading Kernighan and Ritchie way back when I was learning C. I don't say that because the author is the "father" of the language, but because it covers the bare essentials, just enough for you to start really learning to use it.
So if you want to start learning Erlang then this is essential reading and will give you a good start. If you want advance then you'll either have read the online documentation (and there's lots of it) or wait for a book that covers things in more depth.
Highly recommended.
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2: Great overview on Erlang and OTP
With a very amenable writing, Joe Armstrong presents a clear overview on the Erlang Language and basics of the OTP. The book presents the basic topics, with simple and yet powerful examples, and points the directions on how to find more informations.
Definitely a great book.
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3: Very good intro to Erlang
This book was well worth the money even if you don't intend to program in Erlang. It gives a very good over view of an alternative model of parallel programming that is currently not heavily used. The model emphasizes reliability by not having any shared state. I went on to use this model in C++ projects.
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4: Good book technically; a bit confusing organizationally.
Overall, I liked this book. When I read this, I was looking at doing some Erlang work; I didn't end up using Erlang, but the book was still enjoyable, and gave me a good overview of the language.
Some things were a bit odd: the organization was not clear, and the order of chapters was confusing. The authors choice of material was seemed unusual to me: he covered a streaming MP3 server, and mentions ID3 tags; he does not, however, describe what they are or describe in detail how his code processes them. Still, the important details of Erlang itself are covered, and perhaps that's the most important part.
Take it easy,
Dave
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5: Very easy to digest
I made an attempt at working through this book 6 months ago and didn't feel quite comfortable so I dropped it and instead pursued Programming in Haskell. Yesterday I decided to get back into Erlang and found it a complete breeze, powering through the entire book in a few hours.
A lot of things seem to become really easy after working with Haskell, not to say that programming in Haskell is hard, just it twists and bends your mind into a different shape.
Now that I'm abreast of the material covered in this book, I am leaping into a large project with great confidence.
5/5, excellent book!
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