Erlang Programming

This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you'll learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang, regardle...

This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you'll learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang, regardless of your programming background or experience.

Written by leaders of the international Erlang community -- and based on their training material -- Erlang Programming focuses on the language's syntax and semantics, and explains pattern matching, proper lists, recursion, debugging, networking, and concurrency.

This book helps you:

Understand the strengths of Erlang and why its designers included specific features

Learn the concepts behind concurrency and Erlang's way of handling it

Write efficient Erlang programs while keeping code neat and readable

Discover how Erlang fills the requirements for distributed systems

Add simple graphical user interfaces with little effort

Learn Erlang's tracing mechanisms for debugging concurrent and distributed systems

Use the built-in Mnesia database and other table storage features

Erlang Programming provides exercises at the end of each chapter and simple examples throughout the book.

Francesco Cesarini 14年来一直向学生、开发人员、测试人员、项目和技术经理教授Erlang/OTP技术。他协助在爱尔兰、美国和英国建立起了Erlang开发中心。

Simon Thompson是一位肯特大学计算机实验室的逻辑和计算学教授，在过去25年里，他在那里教授本科生和研究生的计算学课程。