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Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013)


It’s been a while since the last post which was a short introduction into functional programming in general and now it’s time to dive into some of the basic concepts of the language. Single assignment & pattern matching In Erlang we should think variables in a mathematical sense of the term, which means that once you’ve bound a variable, you cannot change its value .

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