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Good collection of erlang links. Thanks.

I guess is good addition links is: Erland VM based language Elixir - http://elixir-lang.org/ and newest Elixir presentation http://vimeo.com/53221562

Sweet, just in time. I always wanted to learn Erlang.

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ is a really good resource for that, much better than a random collection of links.

It's on the list.

I think he's been editing it...

Yes, I added it, thanks!

The book is nice for sure, but I found it way too long. It's written for beginners and that's a good thing (for them) and a pity (in my case): I might have known next to nothing about Erlang, but I was already a seasoned programmer with experience with functional programming, so the whole chapter about recursion (or three about basic types...) was a bit too much for me[1].

I was learning Erlang primarily from it's documentation, beginning from syntax and then reading through library reference[2] and some examples here and there. I'm sure that this list would be quite helpful for me then and I find it useful even now.

[1] I returned to LYSE later when I knew better which parts I can safely skip and which to read. Also, I think the book was not completed back then.

[2] The worst web-based docs I ever read. Due to ability to see only one level of a tree at once I was missing massive chunks of functionality. Then I realized I have the same docs on disk as they came with Erlang (not on windows though). Basic find and grep were so much better than even google+erlang www docs! Really, just don't do it. Read the docs from your hard drive.

> seasoned programmer with experience with functional programming

Then you aren't his target market, are you?

The ratio of people with experience doing FP to people who are neither seasoned programmers, nor have experience with FP is pretty low.

True.

I just reacted to your statement that LYSE is "much better than a random collection of links". It's not always better is what I wanted to say.

This is handy if you every find yourself hacking together a parallel map for a escript:

https://github.com/rprimus/plists

thanks for thinks they look like good resources :)

With the title though I was kind of hoping for a full stack of tools for developing apps, like a gui lib, or web framework, etc. Anyone have some of those links?

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