From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-08-25T12:48:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Functional Programming

Robert Dober wrote:

> Well I feel that "Programming Erlang" really is what you are looking,
> for. I am not finished with it, but the "gentle introduction" seems to
> fit perfectly.
> I tried OCaml, Haskell first but I did not find anything like
> "Programming Erlang" to walk me into the concepts...

There is also the problem with Haskell (and OCaml, Prolog, Eiffel, etc.
for that matter) that they are very much academic constructs, rather
than languages honed by real programmers who get paid to write working
software. Erlang is very much a language for real programmers who get
paid to write working software.