
Appendix B
Erlang Quick Reference
B.1 Language basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
B.2 Execution and memory model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
B.3 Message passing syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Erlang is a mature declarative language that shares many features with func-
tional and logic languages, such as Standard ML and Prolog. Erlang is unique
in that concurrency constructs have long been part of the language, and the
recen ...