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title = "Introducing Elixir: Getting Started in Functional Programming - Simon St.Laurent, J. David Eisenberg"
date = 2020-07-24
updated = 2021-02-12

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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".

But to get a "feeling" of the language, it is a good book.