Joe Armstrong's thesis "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" (http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf http:/

Joe Armstrong's thesis "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" (http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf) is a really excellent introduction to Erlang and the ideas behind it. I'd recommend that, along with "Programming Erlang", to anyone interested in learning Erlang or in simply becoming a better programmer.