Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!

Chapter 13. Designing a Concurrent Application

All is fine and dandy. You understand the concepts. But then again, all we’ve had since the beginning of the book were toy examples: calculators, trees, Heathrow to London, and so on. It’s time for something more fun and educational. In this chapter, we’ll write a small application in concurrent Erlang. The application will be small and line-based, but still useful and moderately extensible.

I’m a somewhat disorganized person. I’m lost with homework, things to do around the apartment, this book, work, meetings, appointments, and so on. I end up having a dozen lists everywhere, listing tasks I still forget to do. I hope that you also sometimes need reminders of what to do (but you don’t have a mind ...