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| No Starch Press Publishes Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! - A Lighthearted Guide to the Erlang Programming Language | ||||||
In Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!, author Fred Hébert breaks down the complexities of the language for new users. Hébert—named "Erlang User of the Year" in 2012—keeps the subject matter engaging by using practical examples, clever analogies, and quirky illustrations. What better way to learn about recursive lists in Erlang than seeing them drawn as cute, segmented earthworms? Written in a casual, friendly manner, each chapter guides readers through valuable topics like building applications, common data structures, event handlers, working with OTP, and more. "Erlang's got a lot going for it: concurrency, parallelism, distributed computing, an original approach to fault tolerance. It is often hard to learn due to how unique it is, and there's a lot of hype that surrounds it," says author Fred Hébert. "Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! aims to make sense of these topics in an honest and fun way." Hailed by Robert Virding, co-creator of Erlang, as a "complete description of the Erlang language," Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! will teach readers how to: * Test applications with EUnit and Common Test * Build and release applications with the OTP framework * Pass messages, raise errors, and start/stop processes over many nodes * Store and retrieve data using Mnesia and ETS * Network program with TCP, UDP, and the inet module * Experience the simple joys and potential pitfalls of writing distributed, concurrent applications Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! eases readers into this sometimes-tricky language and prepares them to unleash the dark magic that makes Erlang such a hot topic among today's savvy developers. For more information, visit oreilly.com Additional information: Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! |
