Book review: Introducing Elixir

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 [GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16087659-21st-century-robot):

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+title = "Introducing Elixir: Getting Started in Functional Programming - Simon St.Laurent, J. David Eisenberg"
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+[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18194084-introducing-elixir):
+Authors Simon St. Laurent and J. David Eisenberg show you how to write simple
+Elixir programs by teaching you one skill at a time. You'll learn about
+pattern matching, recursion, message passing, process-oriented programming,
+and establishing pathways for data rather than telling it where to go. By the
+end of your journey, you'll understand why Elixir is ideal for concurrency and
+resilience.
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+In a way, this is an "Introducing" book, so one shouldn't expect some deep
+knowledge about the language after reading it.  But also, sometimes it feels a
+bit too "shallow" to gather some proper understanding of the language. 
+
+One thing that kept bugging me was the fact that code kept changing: Not in
+the "going forward" kind of change, which is good, explain the basic, then
+start adding more complex/shorter solutions, but "let me bend this to another
+direction and completely ignore that direction later".
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+But to get a "feeling" of the language, it is a good book.