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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 Elixir: Getting Started in Functional Programming - Simon St.Laurent, J. David Eisenberg</h1>
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2020-07-24
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18194084-introducing-elixir">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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.</p>
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★★★★☆
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<p>In a way, this is an &quot;Introducing&quot; book, so one shouldn't expect some deep
knowledge about the language after reading it. But also, sometimes it feels a
bit too &quot;shallow&quot; to gather some proper understanding of the language. </p>
<p>One thing that kept bugging me was the fact that code kept changing: Not in
the &quot;going forward&quot; kind of change, which is good, explain the basic, then
start adding more complex/shorter solutions, but &quot;let me bend this to another
direction and completely ignore that direction later&quot;.</p>
<p>But to get a &quot;feeling&quot; of the language, it is a good book.</p>
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