An Excerpt from the Foreword
I hope that many of you will enjoy reading Fred’s book as much as I did and that you find learning Erlang to be an agreeable and thought-provoking process. If you type in the programs in this book and run them as you go along, you’ll learn even more. Writing programs is much more difficult than reading them, and the first step is just letting your fingers get used to typing in the programs and getting rid of the small syntax errors that inevitably occur. As you get deeper into the book, you’ll be writing programs that are pretty tricky to write in most other languages-- but hopefully you won’t realize this. Soon you’ll be writing distributed programs. This is when the fun starts...
Thanks, Fred, for a great book.
-Joe Armstrong, co-inventor of Erlang