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title = "Introducing Erlang: Getting Started in Functional Programming - Simon St. Laurent"
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date = 2020-08-05
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "simon st laurent", "erlang", "it",
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"2020 challenge", "2 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811999-introducing-erlang):
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If you’re new to Erlang, its functional style can seem difficult, but with
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help from this hands-on introduction, you’ll scale the learning curve and
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discover how enjoyable, powerful, and fun this language can be.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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Again, an "Introducing" book that one shouldn't expect some deep explanations,
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but heck, this felt shallower than [Introducing
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Elixir](@/reviews/books/introducing-elixir.md).
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It follows the same path of the "Introducing Elixir" (or maybe it is the other
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way around, but hey, that's the order I read both), by creating a "what speed
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will something crash if dropped in different planets" library and exploring
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changes.
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But the biggest drawback is that the book sticks too much into the Erlang
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Shell and absolutely nothing (besides "here is one thing you can search for")
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outside it. I mean, sure, the language may be nice and fun and all that, but
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what's the point if the build tool is a pain and dependency resolution is
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inexistent -- and I'm not saying Erlang suffers from that, 'cause as a
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learning path, the book says _nothing_ about those things.
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For seeing how the language looks like, it's a good book. For something more
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_real_... far away from it.
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