Think Different(ly)
This is a book about thinking differently—about accepting that some of the things folks say about programming may not be the full story:
- Object orientation is not the only way to design code.
- Functional programming need not be complex or mathematical.
- The bases of programming are not assignments, if statements, and loops.
- Concurrency does not need locks, semaphores, monitors, and the like.
- Processes are not necessarily expensive resources.
- Metaprogramming is not just something tacked onto a language.
- Even if it is work, programming should be fun.
Of course, I’m not saying Elixir is a magic potion (well, technically it is, but you know what I mean). It isn’t the one true way to write code. But it’s different enough from the mainstream ...
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