http://www.aaronfeng.com/articles/2007/07/10/time-to-go-functional en-us 40 Adventures in software development <p>In my college days I avoided functional programming languages such as LISP and Prolog like the plague. Recently I decided to revisit and learn a functional language. My choice of language is <a href="http://www.erlang.org/">Erlang</a> (as you can see from my last post). </p> <p>One of the primary reasons I chose Erlang over other functional languages is Erlang's ability to handle concurrency and distributed programming. Before I get into concurrent programming using Erlang I need to learn the basics. I started my Erlang adventure by reading <a href="http://www.erlang.org/download/getting_started-5.4.pdf">Getting Started with Erlang</a>. I would recommend anyone that is interesting in Erlang to start there. I found the reading was easy and helpful for someone who doesn't know anything about Erlang. Like many other dynamic lanaguages, Erlang comes with an interpreter. I found it very helpful to enter the code into the interpreter while I'm reading the examples. <a href="http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/jaerlang/">Next step is to read Joe Armstrong's book: Programming Erlang</a> Maybe one day I can find a good use for Erlang.</p> Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:33:00 -0400 urn:uuid:d6a15fac-e378-4f15-926b-77da80786b7f Aaron Feng http://www.aaronfeng.com/articles/2007/07/10/time-to-go-functional programming