[erlang-questions] Beginners tutorials

[Garrett Smith]

Cool? Erlang?
On Jun 13, 2014 11:08 PM, "Anthony Ramine" <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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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