Erlang in Print (almost)
Erlang finally has a book out in print again (almost): Programming Erlang, written by Joe Armstrong. The best part of the story is that the publisher is allowing a combo purchase of a beta PDF plus the print book when it's available. How cool is that? I think this model makes a lot of sense with the speed that technologies move these days. Imagine how much they could have made riding the Ruby on Rails hype train a few months earlier than any other publisher with a 70% finished beta PDF plus a print book when available?
I've purchased the book and read through what's available in the beta PDF so far. It definitely does not disappoint: this is the Erlang book and it will be for some time to come.
If you're particularly interested I also highly recommend reading Joe Armstrong's doctoral thesis paper (Making Reliable Systems in the Presence of Software Errors), which has a lot of overlap with what the beta PDF covers and what the book will cover when it's finished. There's also a lot of interesting information in the thesis that may or may not end up in the book such as the history and evolution of Erlang and some interesting case studies.
Hi Bob, I left a comment on a post in your archives yesterday but you might not have seen it…hoping to chat with you about something offline, but can’t seem to find your email anywhere. I’ve included mine with this comment, if you have a moment and could drop me a line real quick, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks very much!
Beth
Comment by beth — 2007-03-06 @ 11:48 am
“Imagine how much they could have made riding the Ruby on Rails hype train a few months earlier than any other publisher with a 70% finished beta PDF plus a print book when available?”
They did:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2005/05/27/beta-book-agile-web-development-with-rails/
Comment by Jason Watkins — 2007-09-15 @ 1:55 pm