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The Erlang Stack

cval 14y ago
Sweet, just in time. I always wanted to learn Erlang.
- davidw 14y ago
  http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ is a really good resource for that, much better than a random collection of links.
  - human_error 14y ago
    It's on the list.
    - davidw 14y ago
      I think he's been editing it...
      - domnikl 14y ago
        Yes, I added it, thanks!
  - klibertp 14y ago
    The book is nice for sure, but I found it way too long. It's written for beginners and that's a good thing (for them) and a pity (in my case): I might have known next to nothing about Erlang, but I was already a seasoned programmer with experience with functional programming, so the whole chapter about recursion (or three about basic types...) was a bit too much for me[1]. I was learning Erlang primarily from it's documentation, beginning from syntax and then reading through library reference[2] and some examples here and there. I'm sure that this list would be quite helpful for me then and I find it useful even now. [1] I returned to LYSE later when I knew better which parts I can safely skip and which to read. Also, I think the book was not completed back then. [2] The worst web-based docs I ever read. Due to ability to see only one level of a tree at once I was missing massive chunks of functionality. Then I realized I have the same docs on disk as they came with Erlang (not on windows though). Basic find and grep were so much better than even google+erlang www docs! Really, just don't do it. Read the docs from your hard drive.
    - davidw 14y ago
      > seasoned programmer with experience with functional programming Then you aren't his target market, are you? The ratio of people with experience doing FP to people who are neither seasoned programmers, nor have experience with FP is pretty low.
      - klibertp 14y ago
        True. I just reacted to your statement that LYSE is "much better than a random collection of links". It's not always better is what I wanted to say.
strobe 14y ago
Good collection of erlang links. Thanks. I guess is good addition links is: Erland VM based language Elixir - http://elixir-lang.org/ http://elixir-lang.org/ and newest Elixir presentation http://vimeo.com/53221562 http://vimeo.com/53221562
jfaucett 14y ago
thanks for thinks they look like good resources :) With the title though I was kind of hoping for a full stack of tools for developing apps, like a gui lib, or web framework, etc. Anyone have some of those links?
ericmoritz 14y ago
This is handy if you every find yourself hacking together a parallel map for a escript: https://github.com/rprimus/plists https://github.com/rprimus/plists

cval 14y ago

Sweet, just in time. I always wanted to learn Erlang.

davidw 14y ago
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ is a really good resource for that, much better than a random collection of links.
- human_error 14y ago
  It's on the list.
  - davidw 14y ago
    I think he's been editing it...
    - domnikl 14y ago
      Yes, I added it, thanks!
- klibertp 14y ago
  The book is nice for sure, but I found it way too long. It's written for beginners and that's a good thing (for them) and a pity (in my case): I might have known next to nothing about Erlang, but I was already a seasoned programmer with experience with functional programming, so the whole chapter about recursion (or three about basic types...) was a bit too much for me[1]. I was learning Erlang primarily from it's documentation, beginning from syntax and then reading through library reference[2] and some examples here and there. I'm sure that this list would be quite helpful for me then and I find it useful even now. [1] I returned to LYSE later when I knew better which parts I can safely skip and which to read. Also, I think the book was not completed back then. [2] The worst web-based docs I ever read. Due to ability to see only one level of a tree at once I was missing massive chunks of functionality. Then I realized I have the same docs on disk as they came with Erlang (not on windows though). Basic find and grep were so much better than even google+erlang www docs! Really, just don't do it. Read the docs from your hard drive.
  - davidw 14y ago
    > seasoned programmer with experience with functional programming Then you aren't his target market, are you? The ratio of people with experience doing FP to people who are neither seasoned programmers, nor have experience with FP is pretty low.
    - klibertp 14y ago
      True. I just reacted to your statement that LYSE is "much better than a random collection of links". It's not always better is what I wanted to say.

Good collection of erlang links. Thanks. I guess is good addition links is: Erland VM based language Elixir - http://elixir-lang.org/ http://elixir-lang.org/ and newest Elixir presentation http://vimeo.com/53221562 http://vimeo.com/53221562

jfaucett 14y ago

thanks for thinks they look like good resources :) With the title though I was kind of hoping for a full stack of tools for developing apps, like a gui lib, or web framework, etc. Anyone have some of those links?

ericmoritz 14y ago

This is handy if you every find yourself hacking together a parallel map for a escript: https://github.com/rprimus/plists https://github.com/rprimus/plists