From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T03:31:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Functional Programming

On Aug 23, 2007, at 1:22 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> The closest thing (and highly recommended) would be the recent  
> Pragmatic
> book "Programming Erlang". Erlang is a functional programming  
> language,
> it features built-in message-passing concurrency, *and* the book is  
> very
> well written.

No offense intended, but I am working through that book right now and  
I would rate it as "good, but not great" writing.  The author  
explains some things very well and is very knowledgeable about the  
topic, but he leaves out a bit much in places.

For example, I don't feel he ever properly covers printing a message  
to the screen.  You can figure it out from his examples and the man  
pages he references, but it would be nice not to need these steps.

That said, I do feel I learned a good deal about functional  
programming from it and I am glad I read it.

James Edward Gray II