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by rdtsc 4657 days ago
Two such whimsical books are Learn You A Haskell For Great Good and Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good.

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

For example, one of my favorite chapters in there is about distributed programming. It is told with an example of 2 camps of survivors of zombie apocalypse trying communicate with each other.

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distribunomicon#alone-in-the-d...

You can tell Fred's (author) passion and enthusiasm from his style of writing.

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I've worked through some of it! That's exactly the kind of stuff I'm talking about.

My Erlang learning has been a little spotty so far but I'm going to Erlang Camp in Nashville next month to fill in some holes. I've been playing a lot with Elixir and that's been helping too.