NewTechReview: Home
| Deals | Articles | Downloads
(Free Software) | Videos | Newsletter (FREE) | Issues
| News | Reviews | Recommend
| Contest | 
RSS
Feed
 |
| O'Reilly Publishes Introducing Erlang: Getting Started in Functional Programming | ||||||
Author Simon St. Laurent shows you how to write simple Erlang programs by teaching you one basic skill at a time. You’ll learn about pattern matching, recursion, message passing, process-oriented programming, and establishing pathways for data rather than telling it where to go. By the end of your journey, you’ll understand why Erlang is ideal for concurrency and resilience. * Get cozy with Erlang’s shell, its command line interface * Become familiar with Erlang’s basic structures by working with numbers * Discover atoms, pattern matching, and guards: the foundations of your program structure * Delve into the heart of Erlang processing with recursion, strings, lists, and higher-order functions * Create processes, send messages among them, and apply pattern matching to incoming messages * Store and manipulate structured data with Erlang Term Storage and the Mnesia database * Learn about Open Telecom Platform, Erlang’s open source libraries and tools For more information, see Introducing Erlang |
