Erlang

Erlang is a programming language with the specific qualities of immutable data and distributed computing.

Installation

Usage

For further documentation you can read Erlang's docs.

To activate the console, run:

$ erl

Commands can be entered like this:

Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.7.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe]
Eshell V10.7.2  (abort with ^G)
1> 1 + 2 .
3
2> (2 + 3) * 4 / 5 .
4.0
3>

Tips and tricks

Emacs mode

To set up the included Emacs mode, erlang-mode, follow the documentation (the OTP path is /usr/lib/erlang).

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