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That book is a good place to start.

> Even if I can't use Erlang in production, I'm sure I'd find food for thought in the concepts.

Oh boy are you going to be in for a treat. The concept for no loop construct other than recursion and recursive thinking was worth it for the little time I dabble in Erlang.

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As an erlang newcomer, the non-loop seems to be one of the most intriguing concepts, IMO.

You still have list comprehensions, map, filter, fold and foreach using higher order functions

Sounds excellent. Procedural imperative programming is the curse of computer science. Program counters be damned! Data-flow FTW.

I'm sure there's some tee-shirt art in that rant somewhere.....

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