Erlang Programming : a Concurrent Approach to Software Development

Content: Erlang Programming
 Preface
 Simon: Why Erlang?
 Who Should Read This Book?
 How to Read This Book
 Conventions Used in This Book
 Using Code Examples
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 Acknowledgments
 1. Introduction
 The History of Erlang
 Erlang's Characteristics
 Concurrent Processes and Message Passing
 Scalable, Safe, and Efficient Concurrency
 Soft Real-Time Properties
 Robustness
 Distributed Computation
 Integration and Openness
 Erlang and Multicore
 Case Studies
 CouchDB
 Comparing Erlang to C++
 How Should I Use Erlang?
 2. Basic Erlang
 The Erlang Shell
 Floats
 Atoms. BooleansTuples
 Lists
 Atoms and Strings
 Building and Processing Lists
 List Functions and Operations
 Term Comparison
 Variables
 Complex Data Structures
 Pattern Matching
 Functions
 Modules
 Module Directives
 Exercises
 B. Assigning through pattern matching
 C. Recursive list definitions
 D. Flow of execution through pattern matching
 E. Extracting values in composite data types through pattern matching
 Exercise 2-2: Modules and Functio.