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Re:Erlang/OTP 20.0 by digitalzombie on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:10PM (#14606393)
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

That book is a good place to start.

> Even if I can't use Erlang in production, I'm sure I'd find food for thought in the concepts.

Oh boy are you going to be in for a treat. The concept for no loop construct other than recursion and recursive thinking was worth it for the little time I dabble in Erlang.

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Re:Erlang/OTP 20.0 by equalunique on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:14PM (#14606440)
As an erlang newcomer, the non-loop seems to be one of the most intriguing concepts, IMO.
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Re:Erlang/OTP 20.0 by marianoguerra on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:44PM (#14606759)
You still have list comprehensions, map, filter, fold and foreach using higher order functions
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Re:Erlang/OTP 20.0 by dbcurtis on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:50PM (#14606807)
Sounds excellent. Procedural imperative programming is the curse of computer science. Program counters be damned! Data-flow FTW.

I'm sure there's some tee-shirt art in that rant somewhere.....

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