Off topic, but is there a recommended post detailing various online Erlang learn...

scarmig · on Dec 14, 2011

Inspired by Learn You a Haskell.

Haven't read all the way through it, but what I've seen looks good.

There's also http://www.tryerlang.org/ , which seems to be down right now.

SoftwareMaven · on Dec 14, 2011

Pragmatic Bookshelf's Programming Erlang book (written by Joe Armstrong, the inventor of Erlang) is a good starting point. If covers the basics of the languages as well as introducing ETS, OTP, and Mnesia.

chops · on Dec 14, 2011

And then there's also #erlang on freenode and the erlang-questions mailing list, the participants of which are quite friendly and helpful.

jasonwocky · on Dec 14, 2011

Also the book "Erlang and OTP in Action". Great next-step book after the PragPub one (or even just skip the PragPub one).

seiji · on Dec 14, 2011

The System Documentation section of erlang docs has well written getting started guides: http://erlang.org/doc/ -- they were the only reference we had before these silly books started showing up a few years ago.

(implied: i was erlanging before it was cool. you probably hadn't heard of it back then.)

Just remember to learn Erlang in layers. Vague order of learning: base language/runtime, APIs, more runtime, more APIs, concurrency, behaviors, nodes, more APIs, multi-nodes, ports, drivers, nifs, ...