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I love Erlang so much I haven't yet gotten around to learning another functional language. (still growing with erlang).

I learned it reading Armstrong's book from Pragmatic Programmers. It was a joy. I'm also reading the OReilly book, and it seems good as well, though I can't tell how it would be if I didn't know the language already. As for the titles-- one is Programming Erlang, and the other is Erlang Programming!

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I think you should learn Brainf*ck. It has awesome mental/intellectual benefits to you as a Erlang lover. No, but really.... ! And if you don't you will suffer! Muahaha!

Erlang is easy to read and makes a lot of sense, without requiring much brainpower... if you'll take a few days and read about it.

I think its kinda silly that people will just ignore a language because it doesn't look like java/C/pascal. Its not like the syntax of erlang is stupid, or pointlessly obtuse.

IMO, the only really ugly part of Erlang is it's record syntax, but it's binary handling more than makes up for it!

Doing Erlang at the day job for the last few months has been awesome. I really wish it would catch on more. Maybe when the JVM supports tail-call optimization and there is a JVM implementation of the runtime...

We know, we know. BUT no one has come up with a better syntax that really works, all the time. There have been suggestions but none have really worked.

I write Erlang every day and love it, but I have to agree with most of the points raised by http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html

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