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I assume the title is a play on the Erland grammar/syntax and not a lame attempt to be ghetto cool? It's cool that the book is available online. I may need to

by rprasad 14y ago

I assume the title is a play on the Erland grammar/syntax and not a lame attempt to be ghetto cool? It's cool that the book is available online. I may need to spend some time learning Erlang.

mononcqc 14y ago
The title is a derivation of 'Learn You a Haskell for Great Good' (http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyouahaskell.com/), which was created first by Miran Lipovača, and has also been published by No Starch since then. When he made his version, I found it interesting and asked him if he'd be fine with me making one in Erlang. He said yes and I started working on it. The first few chapters will go through similar topics and demonstrations (both go through a RPN calculator and a problem called 'Heathrow to London', for example), and then later on it takes a direction of its own. So to answer your question directly, I have no idea if it's an attempt to be ghetto cool. It might be. I just picked a title that would fit the other book to maybe create a family of them or whatever. There's two in the group for now.
jasonlotito 14y ago
You should. Even if you don't use it day to day, it forces you think in an interesting manner to solve problems. You can carry those lessons with you as you go forward.
pohl 14y ago
I couldn't find an authoritative story behind the title "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good", but people generally interpret it as a humorous take on poor translations-to-English, such as the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme, or the title of the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
maukdaddy 14y ago
Presumably a poor translation from a Scandanivian language to English. For example, in Swedish you use the reflexive verb "lära" which means both to learn and to teach. In Swedish you would say "lära dig" which does translate literally to English as "learn you" but which should get the more appropriate translation of "teach yourself".
- adfadf 14y ago
  A small correction. The proper form of "lära" in "Learn you some Erlang for great good!" (or "Teach yourself...") would be "lär", as in "Lär dig lite Erlang för (mycket/väldigt) bra!" if you translate directly. But the end of that sentence is grammatically incorrect in Swedish as well. Either way, I doubt that it's translated from a Scandinavian language since the one who came up with the first book with that title style (Learn you a Haskell for great good!) is Slovenian. A note to the author of the book: It looks very interesting and I just bought a copy. Hopefully I'll have time to read it soon, since I've been wanting to look into Erlang for quite some time now.
  - mononcqc 14y ago
    Thanks for buying it! I hope you'll enjoy it and that it will be a good source of objective information.
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by rprasad 14y ago

I assume the title is a play on the Erland grammar/syntax and not a lame attempt to be ghetto cool? It's cool that the book is available online. I may need to spend some time learning Erlang.

mononcqc 14y ago

The title is a derivation of 'Learn You a Haskell for Great Good' (http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyouahaskell.com/), which was created first by Miran Lipovača, and has also been published by No Starch since then. When he made his version, I found it interesting and asked him if he'd be fine with me making one in Erlang. He said yes and I started working on it. The first few chapters will go through similar topics and demonstrations (both go through a RPN calculator and a problem called 'Heathrow to London', for example), and then later on it takes a direction of its own. So to answer your question directly, I have no idea if it's an attempt to be ghetto cool. It might be. I just picked a title that would fit the other book to maybe create a family of them or whatever. There's two in the group for now.

jasonlotito 14y ago

You should. Even if you don't use it day to day, it forces you think in an interesting manner to solve problems. You can carry those lessons with you as you go forward.

pohl 14y ago

I couldn't find an authoritative story behind the title "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good", but people generally interpret it as a humorous take on poor translations-to-English, such as the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme, or the title of the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

maukdaddy 14y ago

Presumably a poor translation from a Scandanivian language to English. For example, in Swedish you use the reflexive verb "lära" which means both to learn and to teach. In Swedish you would say "lära dig" which does translate literally to English as "learn you" but which should get the more appropriate translation of "teach yourself".

adfadf 14y ago
A small correction. The proper form of "lära" in "Learn you some Erlang for great good!" (or "Teach yourself...") would be "lär", as in "Lär dig lite Erlang för (mycket/väldigt) bra!" if you translate directly. But the end of that sentence is grammatically incorrect in Swedish as well. Either way, I doubt that it's translated from a Scandinavian language since the one who came up with the first book with that title style (Learn you a Haskell for great good!) is Slovenian. A note to the author of the book: It looks very interesting and I just bought a copy. Hopefully I'll have time to read it soon, since I've been wanting to look into Erlang for quite some time now.
- mononcqc 14y ago
  Thanks for buying it! I hope you'll enjoy it and that it will be a good source of objective information.
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