An Introduction to Erlang | Linux Today

An Introduction to Erlang

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 17, 2007

“These days, the functional languages are all the rage. You see
more and more hackers from the traditionally vanilla languages
trying out things like Haskell or Scheme or OCaml. Breaking away
from an imperative tradition forces us to think in a different way,
which is always a good thing.

“Recently, I’ve heard a lot about Erlang, especially from
curious members of the Ruby community. This article is the result
of my quick dive into the language, and will hopefully serve as a
starting point for anyone else who’s been hearing the buzz, but
hasn’t taken the plunge yet…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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