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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.




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.




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