Chapter 3Basic Concepts
This chapter sets the scene for Erlang programming. All Erlang programs, parallel or sequential, use pattern matching, single-assignment variables, and the basic types that Erlang uses to represent data.
In this chapter, we’ll use the Erlang shell to experiment with the system and see how it behaves. We’ll start with the shell.
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