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< Erlang ~ An Absolute Beginner!! |
| farag.shawky |
 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:50 pm |
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Location: Alexandria,Egypt
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Hello everybody
I know this might be long but this is my story.
I'm studing computer science and now i'm enrolled in a class called (Structure of programming languge)as it's name shows it is concerned with the structure of the languages (syntax, semantics,etc ),Every student is requeried to choose a language as a case study,I thought that studying erlang would add alot to my experience.
So far all i managed to do is to download and install erl5.6.1 and the IDE ErlyBird 080306(even if i couldn't use it yet).
Okay then these are my questions:
1-Can this be a bad choise?cause erlang is hard to learn ?or may be something else?
2-How am i supposed to learn the basics of the language like the syntax? and also the IDE is kindda confusing.
Is you have any suggestions,links,books,tutorials or anything u think that it might help, please help! |
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| dsmith |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:08 pm |
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1-Can this be a bad choise?cause erlang is hard to learn ?or may be something else?
2-How am i supposed to learn the basics of the language like the syntax? and also the IDE is kindda confusing.
Erlang is reasonably easy to learn; the syntax it small. If you can wrap your head around single-assignment and the fact that '=' is not an assignment operator (like your favorite imperative language), you're golden.
There are lots of resources..
http://www.erlang.org/download/getting_started-5.4.pdf
http://www.sics.se/~joe/
Also Joe's excellent book..
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang
As for IDE's, that's a matter of personal taste, but many people simply use erlang mode for emacs for editing. [/url] |
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| bluefly |
| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:24 pm |
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I do not know how much this will help, but here is a piece of philosophy that applies to Erlang:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
This is a great language to learn to open people up to a different way of thinking about the parallel process issue.  (And of languages, Erlang is the best choice for learning about concurrent programming anyway because Erlang makes it VERY easy.) |
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| hydo |
| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 7:31 pm |
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| If you can swing it, get the pragmatic erlang book. You can download a PDF of it for around $20. It explains things (at least it does for me) in ways that make a lot of sense. |
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