[erlang-questions] Fundamentals of Erlang - Newbie Introductions

[Anoop Thomas Mathew]

Hi,

Where can a newbie like me find information of such basic questions.
Not a tutorial or like(http://learnyousomeerlang.com/), but about the
underlying concepts of Erlang.

Thanks.
Anoop Thomas Mathew

atm
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On 3 June 2012 11:09, Torben Hoffmann <torben.lehoff@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi Anoop,
>
> Erlang has its own VM, so all those processes are very lightweight
> compared to OS processes.
>
> The basic unit of computation in Erlang is a process with its own memory
> space and you can only communicate with a process by sending it a message.
>
> This set-up is necessary if you want to build a fault tolerant system -
> the last ingredience is the ability to link and monitor processes. Two
> linked processes will die if either of them dies. A monitor will be
> notified if the process it monitors die.
>
> These simple mechanisms is what allows Erlang to work so well.
>
> Hope this clarifies things a bit for you.
>
> Cheers,
> Torben
>
>
Thanks a lot!
That was well enough to clear my doubt.



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> On 03/06/2012, at 06.41, Anoop Thomas Mathew <atmb4u@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> That was a cool video demonstration of erlang processes. Nice work. Kudos
> to Kresten Krab.
> It aroused a question in me that, isn't erlang creating way too many
> processes, and why is that so?
> If someone can spread some light into this topic, and give a
> comprehensive explanation about HOW and WHY, that would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Anoop Thomas Mathew
>
> atm
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> On 3 June 2012 02:30, Björn-Egil Dahlberg <wallentin.dahlberg@REDACTED>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2012/6/2 Lukas Larsson <lukas@REDACTED>
>>
>>> If you find that useful you might want to checkout
>>> https://github.com/psyeugenic/fgraph as well.
>>>
>>
>> After that reminder I felt I had to write a README.
>>
>>  *commit, push*
>>
>> There, I fixed it.
>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Matthew Evans <mattevans123@REDACTED>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Sorry if this is a repost. This was posted on Reddit. Although it
>>> probably
>>> > doesn't have any "real" uses (yet) I think it's a very nice way to
>>> model an
>>> > Erlang VM and your applications.
>>> >
>>> > It got praise from our Java developers when I ran it on our Erlang
>>> > application at work.
>>> >
>>> > Cudos to Kresten Krab for writing this application.
>>> >
>>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHoWfeNuAN8
>>> >
>>> > https://github.com/krestenkrab/erlubi
>>> >
>>> >
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