[erlang-questions] Beginners tutorials

[Joe Armstrong]

Great stuff - will tweet


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Gordon Guthrie <gordon@REDACTED> wrote:

> I have taken a bit more radical approach.
>
> People traditionally comparing Erlang to other languages - and Erlang
> loses because of its weak spot - it has a prolog syntax in a world
> dominated by c-like syntaxes.
>
> I decided to compare Erlang/OTP with other ways of building
> multi-machine clusters.
>
> Here's my hell world attempt:
> http://erlangotp.com
>
> Thoughts comments, welcome
>
> Gordon
>
> On 12/06/2014, Mark Allen <mallen@REDACTED> wrote:
> > I started http://introducingerlang.com right after EF2014 in San
> Francisco.
> > It's intended to be a really short and simple introduction to Erlang for
> > people who know how to program in other languages but don't know Erlang.
> I
> > have a mostly documented OTP application (uses Gordon Guthrie's "literate
> > Erlang" markup) with a supervisor, gen_server and application modules
> here:
> >
> > https://github.com/introducingerlang/todolist/tree/master/src_md
> >
> > I would welcome any help finishing the documentation of the modules in
> that
> > repo or extending/correcting/fixing the web content that's already
> there. I
> > can add you directly to the github organization.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > From: Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED<mailto:erlang@REDACTED>>
> > Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:54 AM
> > To: Erlang
> > <erlang-questions@REDACTED<mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED>>
> > Subject: [erlang-questions] Beginners tutorials
> >
> > Re: Garrett's great talk at EUC2014
> >
> > The point has been made many times before that
> > "There are no easy Erlang getting started guides"
> >
> > So I thought I'd take a look at Node.js.
> >
> > The node js home page (node.js) starts with a simple example
> >
> >
> > <quote>
> > var http = require('http');
> > http.createServer(function (req, res) {
> >   res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
> >   res.end('Hello World\n');
> > }).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');
> > console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');
> >
> > To run the server, put the code into a file example.js and execute it
> with
> > the node program from the command line:
> >
> > % node example.js
> > Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/
> > </endquote>
> >
> > It's pretty easy to knock up an almost identical example in Erlang -
> using
> > any of the well-known web
> > servers in the background, unfortunately this has not been done, or if it
> > has been done
> > it's not easy to find the examples (or if there are examples I can't find
> > them)
> >
> > I was vaguely thinking of making some examples that are more-or-less
> > isomorphic to the
> > node.js examples and then applying small transformation steps to turn
> then
> > from idiomatic node.js code to idiomatic Erlang code.
> >
> > Although I could find a simple hello world example in node.js I could not
> > find a tutorial that
> > started with a simple example and then built on it in very small steps
> > adding routing, authentication,
> > database access and so on.
> >
> > Does anybody know of some examples of node.js that could be used for
> this.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > /Joe
> >
> >
>
>
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