[erlang-questions] Beginners tutorials

[Anthony Ramine]

Hello,

I hope to not sound rude, but I can’t imagine any executive in their right mind choosing Erlang with such an overly colloquial website ridden with spelling mistakes. For starters, such a person will look up « Cluster System », to no avail. Why invent new terms? Why try too hard to be cool?

Regards,

-- 
Anthony Ramine

Le 13 juin 2014 à 17:58, Gordon Guthrie <gordon@REDACTED> a écrit :

> 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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