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

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.