spawn without linking?

[Sean Hinde]

On 23 Apr 2004, at 03:52, Dustin Sallings wrote:

>
> On Apr 22, 2004, at 15:32, Sean Hinde wrote:
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>> How about this which I had fun writing today. It is almost Erlangish, 
>> and it is something like OTP, and it is exactly Joe's selective 
>> receive example. I can't decide whether it is ugly or profoundly 
>> beautiful.
>
> 	Is there an introduction to OTP somewhere that can get an application 
> built and running quickly?  The man pages seem to make a good 
> reference, but don't really do a lot to get me started.

I learnt what I know from the man pages and the "Design Principles" 
section of the HTML documentation.

After a few reads through it should start to make some sort of sense - 
keep at it.

The emacs erlang mode templates are a nice way to arrive at a skeleton 
working set of application, supervisor, gen_server.

Sean