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Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good
- speek 17y agoI'm both excited and pissed that this came out. Excited because it's awesome, pissed because my book didn't come out before this. Edit: my book is still more children-based. :-)
- dylanz 17y ago_Why did you do this? You need to make it more poignant. Perhaps you should pack up your shoes, some hpricots, and go camping. Lay it all out on a RedCloth, drink some potion, and get unHoly. Then, only then... may you reach optimum poignancy. Some may or may not find that punny. Great work! I like the "guide" approach, and it's great to see one being written for Erlang. Keep it up!
- dylanz 17y agoJeesh... is this thing on? Humor in puns people, humor in puns. Granted I didn't realize there was also a Haskell variant of such a document. So many down votes makes a man sad... T_T
- scott_s 17y agoGetting the puns and thinking they're funny are two different things.
- dylanz 17y agoTouché!
- olliesaunders 17y agoSo harsh.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoSuddenly this comment seems more relevant.
- ihumanable 17y agoIf this ends up being half as good as Learn You A Haskell, it will be well worth it. Good to see that you get their permission first
- mononcqc 17y agoI know Miran from IRC, so it was a very friendly discussion. I certainly aim to make it as good as LYAH, his online book is doing a great service to the Haskell community and I'd like Erlang to have something similar.
- mononcqc 17y agoHello HN, I'm the guy who wrote the LYSE site! I Hope you'll enjoy it :) At least I have fun writing and drawing for it. I'll always be fixing mistakes and technical points that were not caught in the reviewing process, so it's much appreciated if you give me comments and criticism. Feel free to speak your mind, I collect these ideas and build on them.
- olliesaunders 17y agoDid you do the Haskell one as well?
- mattyb 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=771200 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=771200
- callahad 17y agoThank you for writing LYSE! This was my first exposure to the syntax and design behind Erlang, and it's really interesting to see the influence of Prolog shining through. I'm looking forward to the future chapters!
- mononcqc 17y agoThe Syntax is the first hard step to go over for many people. Erlang is hardly what you'd call an easy to read language, except if you've used functional languages before. The recursion and pattern matching are relatively uncommon (and different from what you can get from Haskell, too), with naming conventions and atoms also a bit weird at first. Once you get used to it, it becomes very easy to read and concise language. Once you know it. (like anything else.) The syntax turns off a lot of people. It's a shame because even if you might never use Erlang for personal or real-world project (although it's very well done for that), you'll see a different way to do error management and possibly to organize code, depending on what you've done before. It's worth learning.
- keenerd 17y agoYou have it under a fairly tight CC license. Is my automatically ripped PDF version legit enough? http://kmkeen.com/mirror/lys_erlang_fgg.pdf http://kmkeen.com/mirror/lys_erlang_fgg.pdf It was an enjoyable read.
- jerf 17y agoAfter some thought, I have come to the conclusion that the title page should be the official Erlang logo. Perhaps suitably shrunk down, but otherwise, totally the official logo. Don't forget the beard.
- sho 17y agoI absolutely love this site. 1000x thanks to the author. I've been toying with erlang for months; looks like the time has come to take the plunge!
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- christofd 17y agoI'm still waiting on the Monads chapter in LYAH :) Yeah, LYSE is a great idea... now we need an OCaml version as well.
- ams6110 17y agoGreat start, was enjoyable and informative. Looking forward to the next chapters...
- paulitex 17y agohigh quality doc is almost as rare as it is valuable. A noble task, kudos and may you not loose your steam!
- Nervetattoo 17y agoGreat article/mini book. The only thing I miss is a more hands on problem solving example, its such a fun way to start learning something compared to just reading technical detail. Would certainly widen the crowd if you provided both :)
- avinashv 17y agoThis is great! I like the style, love that octopus logo (beard is just perfect), and like the formatting. One thing--and this might be me--that I would change is the color of the body text. It's not dark enough.