Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
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Re: Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
#2From the point of view of someone who likes to tinker with languages, yes. Recipe books are usually extremely helpful and massive timesavers.
Re: Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
#3I know Yurii is very passionate about erlang and he's really good at it so this book should be great.
Re: Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
#4Yes please I can't wait.
Re: Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
#5This sounds great. I have an introductory book to the Erlang language, and would love a recipe book on the language. I got into Perl via Programming Perl, and still refer to my Perl Cookbook to see how to use the language in certain scenarios.
Re: Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
#6Yes. I'd certainly value recipes that follow from using Erlang in real life. Especially if it contains succinct ways of solving common problems like the Python Cookbook, which is by far my favorite technical book.
Re: Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
#7Yes, I'm interested! I'm particularly interested in recipe books that are both task-oriented and language-oriented. For exaple, Doug Hellman's PyMOTW is a phenomenal guide to using libaries that are part of the Python standard distribution and would be a key part of the library.
However, some aspects of the recipe book should be task oriented:
- Web server hosting static files using the standard inets server, and 3rd party libraries like webmachine, nitrogen, and yaws. - How to log - How to enable tracing
etc.
Re: Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
#8I don't know if this is antithetical to these recipe/cookbooks, but please consider teaching coherent themes or design principles via these recipes, rather than simply providing an assortment of useful tidbits. Erlang has such a unique foundation (functional programming + event-driven awesomeness) and so few books that there is a great opportunity to teach the Erlang mindset/perspective and not just a bunch of tips and tricks.
Re: Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
#9Yes, I'm interested! I'm particularly interested in recipe books that are both task-oriented and language-oriented. For exaple, Doug Hellman's PyMOTW is a phenomenal guide to using libaries that are part of the Python standard distribution and would be a key part of the library. However, some aspects of the recipe book should be task oriented: - Web server hosting static files using the standard inets server, and 3rd…
Yes, this is quite close to what I am working on, both language and task-oriented. Also as a maintainer of erlagner.org index I know quite a lot of good libraries to use.
Re: Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?
#10I don't know if this is antithetical to these recipe/cookbooks, but please consider teaching coherent themes or design principles via these recipes, rather than simply providing an assortment of useful tidbits. Erlang has such a unique foundation (functional programming + event-driven awesomeness) and so few books that there is a great opportunity to teach the Erlang mindset/perspective and not just a bunch of tips a…
Very good and valid point, and it is pretty much at the foundation of the book approach (short guides ondesign principles when applied to real tasks, not just the theory)