What documentation is there for Erlang?
The language itself is best described by the Language Reference Manual. The documentation delivered with open source erlang as both man pages and html is the most up-to-date reference to both the OTP libraries and Erlang itself. On unix systems, the easiest way to read the man pages is erl -man gen_tcp . Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World (Joe Armstrong) is the book about Erlang, published in 2007. You can buy it on paper from Amazon and other online bookstores, or directly from the publisher. Erlang Programmation(Mickal Rmond) is an alternative if your French is up to it, it can be ordered from the publisher or via Amazon. Concurrent Programming in Erlang (2nd. Edition) (Armstrong, Virding, Wikström & Williams) was written by the original authors of Erlang itself. The first half of the book can be downloaded for free, Barnes and Noble and Amazon carry it, the ISBN is 013508301X. The book is fairly out of date, but if you also read the Erlang language reference you’ll
