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title = "Learning Erlang"
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date = 2007-09-17T03:21:21Z
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2020-04-12 10:56:18 -04:00
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[taxonomies]
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tags = [
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"Site-News",
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"erlang",
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"etap",
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"Open-Source",
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"OSS-Apps",
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"Testing",
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]
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2020-04-12 09:34:11 -04:00
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I have taken on the task of learning erlang. I was trying to decide between
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learninng Haskell, OCaml, or Erlang. OCaml, I decided against since it had too
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close a similarity to C and I wanted to really stretch myself.
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Haskell and Erlang both fit that bill however I found the Erlang
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Documentation to be far better for someone completely new to the functional
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programming world. Haskell's idea of a tutorial tried to cover too many
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concepts at once and took too long to get to the hands on stuff. Also erlang
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offered the opportunity to learn Distributed programming concepts along the way
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so erlang it was. You can see my first erlang project
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[etap here](http://github.com/zaphar/etap).
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