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<DIV>I am in more or less situation as you. I am a Java programmer by trade, and python programmer by hobby :-) </DIV>
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<DIV>I have subscribed to the RSS feed from planet trapexit and from time to time I find some fun little thing people do with erlang e.g. write binary search in erlang. </DIV>
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<DIV>I think 'reinventing some wheels' (i.e. getting your hand dirty) is the best way to learn.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have set up a blog for this purpose <A href="http://erlang-python-java.blogspot.com/">http://erlang-python-java.blogspot.com/</A>. Hopefully when I get around to finish something worth goes public in the blog, I can solicit some feedback from the community.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers, Anthony</DIV>
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<DIV> <BR><BR>>>> "Jay Parlar" <parlar@gmail.com> 24/08/2007 11:05 am >>><BR>On 8/23/07, Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>> Hello everyone,<BR>><BR>> I was wondering if someone might point me in the right direction. I'm<BR>> a professional developer and have a pretty solid, albeit imperative<BR>> background for the last 20 or so years. I have long wanted to get my<BR>> head around functional programming, and have picked up Erlang<BR>> recently; as in about a week ago.<BR>><BR>> I don't quite know /why/, but for some reason this language has really<BR>> excited me. Haven't felt this way about a language in a long time<BR>> (year and language left as an exercise for the reader).<BR>><BR>> I'm reading Joe's "Programming Erlang" book, and am slowly picking up<BR>> the syntax, and TRYING to get the idioms. I hope that will come with<BR>> use and practice. Ok, so, I'm reading that book, trapexit, any blogs<BR>> I can find, looking at code samples, etc. What I was wondering is if<BR>> there were any canonical types of exercises, or tutorials with<BR>> exercises, etc. that will help me along this journey?<BR>><BR>> And lastly, I'll inevitably have really, really basic questions I'm<BR>> sure. Is this the place for those, or if not, where?<BR><BR>I'm in the exact same situation. Long time Python developer, excited<BR>by all the recent Erlang talk in the Python community, learning from<BR>the book. If you haven't found them yet, there's a lot of stuff on<BR>erlang.org under "Examples". Haven't had time to go through them yet<BR>(still working through the book), but it looks like there's some<BR>decent stuff there.<BR><BR>Jay P.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>erlang-questions mailing list<BR>erlang-questions@erlang.org<BR><A href="http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang">http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang</A>-questions<BR><
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