I assume the title is a play on the Erland grammar/syntax and not a lame attempt to be ghetto cool?
It's cool that the book is available online. I may need to spend some time learning Erlang.
It's cool that the book is available online. I may need to spend some time learning Erlang.
When he made his version, I found it interesting and asked him if he'd be fine with me making one in Erlang. He said yes and I started working on it.
The first few chapters will go through similar topics and demonstrations (both go through a RPN calculator and a problem called 'Heathrow to London', for example), and then later on it takes a direction of its own.
So to answer your question directly, I have no idea if it's an attempt to be ghetto cool. It might be. I just picked a title that would fit the other book to maybe create a family of them or whatever. There's two in the group for now.
Either way, I doubt that it's translated from a Scandinavian language since the one who came up with the first book with that title style (Learn you a Haskell for great good!) is Slovenian.
A note to the author of the book: It looks very interesting and I just bought a copy. Hopefully I'll have time to read it soon, since I've been wanting to look into Erlang for quite some time now.