Concurrent Programming in Erlang

by Joe Armstrong, Mike Williams, Robert Virding

A complete description of Erlang, a programming language for building robust concurrent systems. The book contains many examples of how robust real-time systems can be programmed using this language.

Genres: Programming

281 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1993

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the concepts remain useful, the code unfortunately suffers from bit rot due to improvements in Erlang. It's dated and rather unnecessary now that Joe Armstrong's own Erlang book was just published by the Pragmatic Programmers.

[Alex Poovathingal · Rating 5 out of 5]

A pragmatic and concise introduction to Erlang.

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although out of date in its technical details, the later chapters contain some excellent examples of distributed software construction in Erlang.