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Book: Programming Erlang

I’ve started reading the Programming Erlang book by Joe Armstrong. I’ve learned about the existence of Erlang about a year or two ago when I was looking into learning a functional language.

I tried Haskell, Ocaml and Erlang (I didn’t tried Lisp purely on aesthetics issues – i don’t like too many parenthesis :) ). After a while with those languages i choose Erlang as my functional language to learn. Haskell learning curve was too steep, and in Ocaml i didn’t like the syntax.

So when the beta of the Erlang book was announced I bought it. And now after I have some spare time I started reading it. The book is really easy to read. Joe did a fantastic job of explaining Erlang in simple words. I recommend to all of you who have a desire to learn a functional language to give Erlang a try.

P.S. The reasons for choosing Erlang are totally subjective and by no mean am I saying that either Haskell or Ocaml are bad languages. I’m just saying that I liked Erlang more. The same goes for Lisp.

Enjoy!

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