Bulldozer00's Blog

Since my last status report, I haven’t done much studying or code-writing with Erlang. It’s not because I don’t want to, it’s just that learning a new programming language well enough to write idiomatic code in it is a huge time sink (for me) and there’s just not enough time to “allocate” to the things I want to pursue.

However, that may change now that I have e-access (through my safaribooksonline.com subscription) to a second, terrific, Erlang book: “Erlang And OTP In Action“. Together with the equi-terrific book, “Erlang Programming“, the two different teaching approaches are just what may motivate me to pick up the pace.

When learning a new topic, I like to use multiple sources of authority so that I can learn the subject matter from different points of view. It’s interesting to compare the table of contents for the two books:

Currently, I’m in chapter 2 of the Erlang/OTP book (left TOC above) and chapter 6 in the Erlang book. As I lurch forward, the going gets slooower because the concepts and language features are getting more advanced. I hate when that happens. 🙂

Note: If you’re interested in reading my first Erlang learning status report, click here. My second one is here.