Introducing Elixir: Getting Started in Functional Programming - Softcover

Laurent, Simon St.; Eisenberg, J. David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449369995 ISBN 13: 9781449369996

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2014

Synopsis

Elixir is an excellent language if you want to learn about functional programming, and with this hands-on introduction, you’ll discover just how powerful and fun Elixir can be. This language combines the robust functional programming of Erlang with a syntax similar to Ruby, and includes powerful features for metaprogramming.

This book shows you how to write simple Elixir programs by teaching one skill at a time. Once you pick up pattern matching, process-oriented programming, and other concepts, you’ll understand why Elixir makes it easier to build concurrent and resilient programs that scale up and down with ease.

• Get comfortable with IEx, Elixir’s command line interface
• Discover atoms, pattern matching, and guards: the foundations of your program structure
• Delve into the heart of Elixir with recursion, strings, lists, and higher-order functions
• Create processes, send messages among them, and apply pattern matching to incoming messages
• Store and manipulate structured data with Erlang Term Storage and the Mnesia database
• Build resilient applications with Erlang’s Open Telecom Platform
• Define macros with Elixir’s metaprogramming tools

About this title

About the Author

Simon St. Laurent is Senior Editor at O'Reilly Media, Inc., focusing primarily on JavaScript and web-related projects. He is co-chair of the Fluent conference. He's authored or co-authored books including Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, Learning Rails 3, XML Pocket Reference, 3rd, XML: A Primer, and Cookies.

You can find more of his writing on technology, Quakerism, and the Town of Dryden at simonstl.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449369995
• ISBN 13: 9781449369996
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210