Introducing Erlang: Getting Started in Functional Programming

If you’re new to Erlang, its functional stylecan seem difficult, but with help from this hands-on introduction, you’ll scalethe learning curve and discover how enjoyable, powerful, and fun this languagecan be.

Author Simon St. Laurent shows you how to write simple Erlang programs byteaching you one basic skill at a time. You’ll learn about pattern matching,recursion, message passing, process-oriented programming, and establishingpathways for data rather than telling it where to go. By the end of yourjourney, 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