Thanks everyone for your enlightening responses.
On Sep 25, 3:35 am, Rick Moynihan <rick.moyni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/24 wmacgyver <wmacgy...@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
> > Excellent summary of each language's sweet spot. I'd like to suggest a
> > different book for Erlang though.
>
> > For learning Erlang, I'd suggest Erlang Programming by Francesco
> > Cesarini & Simon Thompson, published by O'Reilly
>
> Yes, this is definitely the best book currently available on Erlang.
> It's amazing how well it seems to hit both the introductory and more
> advanced ends of Erlang and its environment. Joe's book was good (but
> a little shallow), this is indepth yet accessible.
>
> Having had the pleasure of spending a good couple of hours with both
> the authors I can say that not only do they really know their stuff,
> but that they're both excellent at explaining things... With
> Francesco being CTO of Erlang Training & Consultants (one of the
> oldest (and probably the oldest) Erlang consultancy companies -
> outside of Erricson) and Simon being a long established academic &
> authority on functional programming as well as author of what is
> regarded by many as the best text on Haskell, they have a talent for
> explaining things simply.
>
> The other thing I find striking about this book, is that it's very
> much a practical book geared at people using Erlang to solve real
> world problems. There is little talk from ivory towers here, just the
> nitty gritty details of Erlang, concurrency and high-availability
> engineering.
>
> Anyway, I'm just glad that we now have two practical (real-world)
> functional languages available to us, Erlang and Clojure. As others
> have said, Erlang is a more specialist language than Clojure and in
> its niche it is undisputed king... However Clojure, being built on
> the JVM is more suited to a wider variety of problems (think
> everything that Java was used for + everything lisp or scheme is great
> at with some bonus points for combining these worlds so well).
>
> R.
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