Who Is This Book For?

The target audience for this book ranges from the experienced Erlang programmer who wants to learn more about Erlang internals and the philosophy behind Erlang to the absolute beginner. The text has been reviewed by programmers at all levels, from expert to beginner. One of the major differences between the second and first editions has been the addition of a large amount of explanatory material especially targeted at the beginner. Advanced Erlang programmers can skip over the introductory material.

A second goal has been to demystify functional, concurrent, and distributed programming and present it in a way that is appropriate to an audience that has no prior knowledge of concurrency or functional programming. Writing ...

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