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The System Documentation section of erlang docs has well written getting started guides: http://erlang.org/doc/ -- they were the only reference we had before these silly books started showing up a few years ago.

(implied: i was erlanging before it was cool. you probably hadn't heard of it back then.)

Just remember to learn Erlang in layers. Vague order of learning: base language/runtime, APIs, more runtime, more APIs, concurrency, behaviors, nodes, more APIs, multi-nodes, ports, drivers, nifs, ...



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