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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Introducing Erlang: Getting Started in Functional Programming - Simon St. Laurent</h1>
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2020-08-05
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/simon-st-laurent/">#simon st laurent</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/erlang/">#erlang</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/it/">#it</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2020/">#books:2020</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-2/">#stars:2</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2012/">#published:2012</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811999-introducing-erlang">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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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.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>Again, an "Introducing" book that one shouldn't expect some deep explanations,
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but heck, this felt shallower than <a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/reviews/books/introducing-elixir/">Introducing
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Elixir</a>.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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 <em>nothing</em> about those things.</p>
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<p>For seeing how the language looks like, it's a good book. For something more
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<em>real</em>... far away from it.</p>
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<h2 id="highlights">Highlights</h2>
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<p>go to the command line and type erl </p>
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<p><em>Note</em>: <code>erl</code> is the Erlang Shell.</p>
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<p>3> 2#1010111. </p>
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<p><em>Note</em>: Binary notation.</p>
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<p>4> 16#cafe </p>
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<p><em>Note</em>: Hex notation.</p>
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<p>FallVelocity = fun(Distance) -> math:sqrt(2 * 9.8 * Distance) end.</p>
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<p><em>Note</em>: <code>fun</code> creates an anonymous function; it is then associated with the
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name <code>FallVelocity</code> (all variables need to start with an upcase letter).</p>
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<p>-module(drop).<br>
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-export([fall_velocity/1, mps_to_mph/1, mps_to_kph/1]).<br><br>
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fall_velocity(Distance) -> math:sqrt(2 * 9.8 * Distance). <br>
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mps_to_mph(Mps) -> 2.23693629 * Mps.<br>
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mps_to_kph(Mps) -> 3.6 * Mps.</p>
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<p>-module(combined).<br>
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-export([height_to_mph/1]).<br>
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-import(drop, [fall_velocity/1]).<br>
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-import(convert, [mps_to_mph/1]).<br>
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height_to_mph(Meters) -> mps_to_mph(fall_velocity(Meters)). </p>
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<p>In Erlang, greater-than-or-equal-to is written as >=, and
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less-than-or-equal-to as =<. Don’t make them look like arrows. </p>
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<p>try <br>
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math:sqrt(2 * Gravity * Distance) <br>
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catch <br>
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error:Error -> {error, Error} end.</p>
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<p>Creating a map requires a different syntax presenting keys and values:<br>
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1> Planemos = #{ earth => 9.8, moon => 1.6, mars => 3.71 }.<br>
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#{earth => 9.8,mars => 3.71,moon => 1.6} </p>
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