The good news about Erlang can be summed up at this: Erlang is the culmination of twenty-five years of correct design decisions in the language and platform. Whenever I've wondered about how something in Erlang works, I have never been disappointed in the answer. I almost always leave with the impression that the designers did the “right thing”. I suppose this is in contrast to Java, which does the pedantic thing, Perl, which does the kludgy thing, Ruby, which has two independent implementations of the wrong thing, and C, which doesn't do anything.
Twitter has become quite the hotbed of chatter about functional programming over the past few months, as a substantial number of pretty well known FP people have either been present all along or have signed up recently and started following each other. Here is a list of people I know about who tweet about FP on a semi-regular basis, along with what I think are their main interest
This is a collection of Erlang example programs. The document is also available as a postscript or pdf file. All the programs referred to are available in the archive examples-2.0.tgz. The programs attempt to do useful things, thus you will find complete
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