Help! It Doesn’t Work
Learning new stuff is difficult. You will get stuck. When you get stuck, rule 1 is to not silently give up. Rule 2 is to get help. Rule 3 is to ask Sherlock.
Rule 1 is important. There are people who have tried Erlang, gotten stuck and given up, and not told anybody. If we don’t know about a problem, we can’t fix it. End of story.
The best way to get help is to first try Google; if Google can’t
help, send mail to the Erlang mailing list.[3] You can also
try #erlounge or #erlang at irc.freenode.net
for a faster response.
Sometimes the answer to your question might be in an old posting to the Erlang mailing list but you just can’t find it. In Chapter 27, Sherlock’s Last Case, there’s a program you can run locally that ...
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