Starting Out (for real) | Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!

Erlang is a relatively small and simple language (in the way C is simpler than C++). There are a few basic data types built in the language, and as such, this chapter will cover most of them. Reading it is strongly advised as it explains the building blocks for all the programs you'll write with Erlang later on. Numbers In the Erlang shell, expressions have to be terminated with a period followed

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“The = operator (not the variables) has the role of comparing values and complaining if they're different. If they're the same, it returns the value:”