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Sweet, just in time. I always wanted to learn Erlang.
by cval 14y ago
Sweet, just in time. I always wanted to learn Erlang.
- davidw 14y agohttp://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ is a really good resource for that, much better than a random collection of links.
- human_error 14y agoIt's on the list.
- klibertp 14y agoThe 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 agoTrue. 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.