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Getting Started with Erlang
User's Guide
Version 5.8.3

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Chapters

- Introduction
  - Top of chapter
  - Introduction
  - Things Left Out
- Sequential Programming
  - Top of chapter
  - The Erlang Shell
  - Modules and Functions
  - Atoms
  - Tuples
  - Lists
  - Standard Modules and Manual Pages
  - Writing Output to a Terminal
  - A Larger Example
  - Matching, Guards and Scope of Variables
  - More About Lists
  - If and Case
  - Built In Functions (BIFs)
  - Higher Order Functions (Funs)
- Concurrent Programming
  - Top of chapter
  - Processes
  - Message Passing
  - Registered Process Names
  - Distributed Programming
  - A Larger Example
- Robustness
  - Top of chapter
  - Timeouts
  - Error Handling
  - The Larger Example with Robustness Added
- Records and Macros
  - Top of chapter
  - The Larger Example Divided into Several Files
  - Header Files
  - Records
  - Macros

# Getting Started with Erlang User's Guide

#### Version 5.8.3

#### March 14 2011