Erlang编程

1.introduction why should i use erlang?

Why Should I Use Erlang?

The History of Erlang

Erlangs Characteristics

High-Level Constructs

Concurrent Processes and Message Passing

Scalable， Safe， and Efficient Concurrency

Soft Real-Time Properties

Robustness

Distributed Computation

Integration and Openness

Erlang and Multicore

Case Studies

The AXD301 ATM Switch

CouchDB

Comparing Erlang to C++

How Should I Use Erlang?

2.basic erlang integers

the erlang shell

floats

atoms

booleans

tuples

lists

term comparison

variables

complex data structures

pattern matching

functions

modules

exercises

3.sequential erlang conditional evaluations

guards

built-in functions

recursion

runtime errors

handling errors

library modules

the debugger

exercises

4.concurrent programming creating processes

message passing

receiving messages

registered processes

timeouts

benchmarking

process skeletons

tail recursion and memory leaks

a case study on concurrency-oriented programming

race conditions， deadlocks， and process starvation

the process manager

exercises

5.process design patterns client/server models

a process pattern example

finite state machines

event managers and handlers

exercises

6.process error handling process links and exit signals

robust systems

exercises

7.records and macros records

macros

exercises

8.software upgrade upgrading modules

behind the scenes

upgrading processes

the .erlang file

exercise

9.more data types and high-level constructs functional programming for real

funs and higher-order functions

list comprehensions

binaries and serialization

references

exercises

10.ets and dets tables ets tables

dets tables

a mobile subscriber database example

exercises

11.distributed programming in erlang distributed systems in erlang

distributed computing in erlang： the basics

the epmd process

exercises

12.otp behaviors introduction to otp behaviors

generic servers

supervisors

applications

release handling

other behaviors and further reading

exercises

13.introducing mnesia when to use mnesia

configuring mnesia

transactions

partitioned networks

further reading

exercises

14.gui programming with wxerlang wxwidgets

wxerlang： an erlang binding for wxwidgets

a first example： microblog

the miniblog example

obtaining and running wxerlang

exercises

15.socket programming user datagram protocol

transmission control protocol

the inet module

further reading

exercises

16.interfacing erlang with other programming languages an overview of interworking

interworking with java

c nodes

erlang from the unix shell： erl_call

port programs

library support for communication

linked-in drivers and the ffi

exercises

17.trace bifs， the dbg tracer， and match specifications introduction

the trace bifs

tracing calls with the trace_pattern bif

the dbg tracer

match specifications： the fun syntax

match specifications： the nuts and bolts

further reading

exercises

18.types and documentation types in erlang

typer： success types and type inference

documentation with edoc

exercises

19.eunit and test-driven development test-driven development

eunit

the eunit infrastructure

testing state-based systems

testing concurrent programs in erlang

exercises

20.style and efficiency applications and modules

processes and concurrency

stylistic conventions

coding strategies

efficiency

and finally

appendix： using erlang

index

《Erlang编程（影印版）》深入介绍了Erlang，这是一门满足高并发、容错和快速响应等苛刻要求的理想编程语言。随着多核CPU以及与之俱来的新并发扩展方式崭露头角，Erlang正在获得更广泛的接受和应用。只要拥有这本指南，无论此前的编程水平或经验如何，你都将学会用Erlang编写复杂的并发程序。
《Erlang编程》由Erlang国际社区的两位领袖级人物基于他们的培训教材撰写，重点解析该语言的语法和语义，并详细阐述模式匹配、严格列表（proper lists）、递归、调试、网络与并发等重要概念的精髓要义。
《Erlang编程（影印版）》可以帮助你：理解并掌握Erlang的诸多强项，以及其设计者潜心设计的各种特性；学习并发背后的概念和Erlang相应的处理方法；编写高效的Erlang程序，并且保持代码整洁易读；发现Erlang如何满足分布式系统的需求；小试牛刀，添加简单图形用户界面；学习Erlang的追踪机制，用于调试并发和分布式系统；使用内嵌的Mnesia数据库和其他表存储特性。
无论你是新手还是富有经验的Erlang开发者，《Erlang编程》都是案头必备的重要参考资料。