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dschiptsov on Oct 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Program in Erlang

Talking about Erlang without reading Armstrong's thesis is stupid.

Talking about Erlang after reading the thesis is useless.)

http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

contr-error on Oct 30, 2012 [–]

Do you mean that this thesis is the definitive introduction to Erlang or that it demonstrates a key problem?

In the Adder() example on page 56, is the final line a typo (Adder(10). resulting in 15)? Should it have been Adder10(10). resulting in 20?

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