My Erlang Learning Status – IV
I haven’t progressed forward at all on my previously stated goal of learning how to program idiomatically in Erlang. I’m still at the same point in the two books (“Erlang And OTP In Action“; “Erlang Programming“) that I’m using to learn the language and I’m finding it hard to pick them up and move forward.
I’m still a big fan (from afar) of Erlang and the Erlang community, but my initial excitement over discovering this terrific language has waned quite a bit. I think it’s because:
- I work in C++ everyday
- C++11 is upon us and learning it has moved up to number 1 on my priority list.
- There are no Erlang projects in progress or in the planning stages where I work. Most people don’t even know the language exists.
Because of the excuses, uh, reasons above, I’ve lowered my expectations. I’ve changed my goal from “learning to program idiomatically” in Erlang to finishing reading the two terrific books that I have at my disposal.
Note: If you’re interested in reading my previous Erlang learning status reports, here are the links:
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Don’t feel bad. It’s hard to get good at a language without a motivating project. I’ve had an Android book for months now, and haven’t gone beyond a hello world thing on the emulator. On the bright side, there is some interest here in using tablets out in the football-sized laser bay for viewing images and controlling devices, so just maybe…
Thanks for the support Mark. I bit off more than I could chew at this point in my (so-called) career :^)
That would be cool to develop an android app. Would it be in C++?
No, Android apps are written in Java, unfortunately.
I see. Like iOS apps are written in Objective C.