Tutorial: Learning Erlang – just the basic basics. Recently I’ve been teaching myself how to program in Erlang.
What is Erlang? From the Erlang FAQ they explain it this way: “Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Learning Erlang. Last week I decided to learn Erlang, a functional programming language developed by Ericsson in 1987 for use in telecommunications environments.
It's probably the strangest non-toy programming language I've ever tried to learn, so I thought I'd share some of my realizations. Variables vs. Table of Contents. Hey there, it appears your Javascript is disabled.
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