learning-erlang.rst

Learning Erlang

Home page:	https://github.com/pierre-rouleau/about-erlang
Time-stamp:	<2020-08-27 11:32:00, updated by Pierre Rouleau>
Copyright:	Copyright © 2020, Pierre Rouleau
License:	MIT

Table of Contents

• 1   Authority Information
• 2   Code Guidelines & Quick Sheets
• 3   Learning Resources
• 4   Language References
• 5   Development Resources

1   Authority Information

Topic	Content
Authority
Erlang Project Homepage	Erlang/OTP project home page. They control all official releases, provide the official implementation, documentation, tools and reference to important books and documents. Erlang On-Line Documentation, Books & Papers: Official documentation about Erlang and OTP with links to books and Joe Armstrong paper. This includes: Erlang/OTP Documentation (latest official version) Erlang/OTP Documentation with Search (works in Chrome, Firefox 74.0.1, Safari 13.2 but not in Safari 13.1). Erlang/OTP FAQ erldocs.com, an alternative to the official Erlang documentation. Erlang Reference Manual - User's Guide Efficiency Guide - User's Guide Systems Principles - User's Guide OTP Design Principles - User's Guide Erlang Man Page Index OTP Versions Tree The site also holds the following Erlang Community information: Erlang Development repositories (on Github, see next row below) Erlang IDE and editor support Free online courses Erlang Tutorials Mailing Lists Chat StackOverflow Q&A Erlang Resources
Erlang @ Github	Github holds the official Erlang repositories: Erlang/OTP @ Github Erlang/Erlang-org @ Github (the Erlang website) Erlang/rebar3 @ Github Erlang/docker-erlang-otp @ Github (the Official Erlang OTP image on Docker Hub) Erlang/cd @ Github (continuous delivery of Erlang/OTP artifacts) Erlang/EEP @ Github (Erlang Enhancement Proposals) and several others...
Erlang Software License	As explained in the Wikipedia Erlang Public License page, Ericsson changed the license under which Erlang is published as of Erlang/OTP version 18.0. Erlang/OTP 18.0 and later: Apache License 2.0 Erlang/OTP prior to 18.0: Erlang Public License

2   Code Guidelines & Quick Sheets

Topic	Content
Code Guidelines	Ericsson Erlang Programming Rules and Conventions Written by Klass Eriksson, Mike Williams and Joe Armstrong. Describes the programming rules and conventions of Erlang programming. Inaka's Erlang Coding Standards & Guidelines Inaka's corporate Erlang Guideline. EDoc User's Guide How to document Erlang code with EDoc annotations.
Quick-Sheets	Learn X in Y minutes, where X=erlang A quick overview of Erlang. Erlang Concurrent Programming An Erlang.org quick presentation on Erlang's concurrent programming concepts.

3   Learning Resources

Topic	Content
Introduction	Erlang (programming language) @ Wikipedia Outsider's view of the Erlang programming language with some history, language overview and several links to interesting articles and sites. Category:Erlang (programming language) @ Wikipedia Links to Wikipedia pages related to Erlang and its libraries.
Paper Books	Books on Erlang. A list is also available on the Erlang/OTP Documentation page. Erlang and OTP in Action Written by Martin Logan, Eric Merrit and Richard Clarsson. Published in 2010. Very well written, concise and effective must read book to learn Erlang and OTP. Example code in GitHub Erlang and OTP in Action. Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang and Elixir An intermediate/advanced book on property testing in Erlang and Elixir, written by Fred Hébert, published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2019.
Online Books	Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! (TOC) A comprehensive introduction to Erlang written by Fred Hébert. Also in print. No starch press. 2013 Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger A "collection of tips and tricks to help understand where failures come from" and code to help debug Erlang systems. Written by Fred Hébert. Adopting Erlang A book on Erlang system, how to build, how to use in production. Collectively written by the adoptingerlang project contributors which includes Tristan Sloughter and Fred Hébert. The Erlang Runtime System Written by Erik Stenman, this book focuses on tuning Erlang installation and describes how Erlang works. PropEr Testing
Online Courses	List of online sites providing Erlang courses. University of Kent & FutureLearn Erlang Courses The following courses are available: Functional Programming in Erlang Concurrent Programming in Erlang Erlang Master Classes @ University of Kent
Organizations	Erlang.org , the official Erlang/OTP home. Erlang Solutions An organization devoted to Erlang based software solutions, which provides design services but also provides open source and pre-package Erlang installations. Erlware Erlware is an umbrella organization dedicated to bringing high quality, well tested, reusable libraries and tools to the Erlang community. They provide the Erlware Commons Erlang library, the Relx Erlang release assembler tool, the Joxa Lisp BEAM language, and training. See also: The Erlware Blog Spawned Shelter A collection of articles, videos and books for learning Erlang, and other BEAM languages like Elixir, LFE and EFene. Erlang Central A community of Erlang developers with links to documentation, books and several packages and libraries. See the related sites: Erlang Central @ GitHub Erlang Books @ Erlang Central

4   Language References

Topic	Content
Language Specifications	Core Erlang 1.0.3 language specifications, November 26, 2004, by Richard Carlsson, Björn Gustavsson, Erik Johansson, Thomas Lindgren, Sven-Olof Nyström, Mikael Pettersson and Robert Virding Github repo of an Erlang Language specification draft.
Sequential Erlang	Type Specifications Types and Function Specifications (at erlang.org). Types (or lack thereof) (at LYSEFGG). Type Specifications and Erlang (at LYSEFGG). TypEr: A Type Annotator of Erlang Code (at erlang.org). TypEr: A Type Annotator of Erlang Code (Lindahl & Sogonas paper, Uppsala University, Sweden). Data Types From erlang.org reference data types Complementary Information Terms   Numbers, Numbers [1], supports Bignums but not in math functions. atoms, atoms and Variables [1]. boolean: true and false boolean and comparison operators [1]. pid (Erlang process identifier)   port identifier (Erlang port IDs)   reference   "strings" and escape sequences   bit strings and binaries, bit strings {tuples,} and records {tuples} [1] [lists,] [lists], list comprehensions [1] map and map expressions   type conversions   Fun and Fun expressions   Erlang Functions From erlang.org - User's Guide Complementary Information Function names are atoms Like atoms, function names can use single quotes. Built-in-Functions: BIFs concept, list of BIFs What are BIFs? 2009 Robert Virding email.
Erlang Tools	Erlang Shell The Shell , Shell Commands (at LYSEFGG). Man pages: Shell. Related modules: shell_default, shell_docs.

5   Development Resources

Topic	Content
Build/Install Tools	List of software tools for building and installing Erlang. Homebrew Installs pre-built version of Erlang. Erlang Solutions ErlangInstaller Installs pre-built versions of Erlang with macOS GUI application ErlangInstaller froom Erlang Solutions. kerl Easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP from source. asdf-vm Package manager - can install Erlang, Elixir and other tools and systems from source. For Erlang, uses kerl.
Development Tools	Articles on Erlang development tools. 10 Essential Erlang Tools for Erlang Developers A Pluralsight guide written by Brujo Benavides describing several very useful tools.
Libraries	List of Erlang source code libraries. Erlang Libraries @ Erlang.org Describes what is an Erlang OTP library. Awesome Erlang A curated list of amazingly awesome Erlang libraries.
Related Topics	The Actor Model @ wikipedia Presentation of the Actor Model. See also: Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems from Carl Hewitt Youtube video: Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model It's Actors All the Way Down A collection of topics related to the Actor Model in relation with Humus, a pure Actor Model programming language. Some articles compare Erlang to the pure Actor Model: Erlang-style Mailboxes

[1]	(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) From Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!

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