Francesco Cesarini

Erlang Programming (eBook, ePUB)

A Concurrent Approach to Software Development

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you'll learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang, regardless of your programming background or experience. Written by leaders of the international Erlang community -- and based on their training material -- Erlang Programming focuses on the language's syntax and semantics, and explains pattern matching, proper lists, recursion, debugging, networking, and concurrency.This book helps you:Understand the strengths of Erlang and why its designers included specific featuresLearn the concepts behind concurrency and Erlang's way of handling itWrite efficient Erlang programs while keeping code neat and readableDiscover how Erlang fills the requirements for distributed systemsAdd simple graphical user interfaces with little effortLearn Erlang's tracing mechanisms for debugging concurrent and distributed systemsUse the built-in Mnesia database and other table storage featuresErlang Programming provides exercises at the end of each chapter and simple examples throughout the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780596555856
• Artikelnr.: 52965846

Autorenporträt

Francesco Cesarini is the founder and CTO of Erlang Training and Consulting http://www.erlang-consulting.com/. Having used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, he started his career as an intern at Ericsson's computer science lab, the birth place of Erlang. He spent four years at Ericsson working with flagship Erlang projects, including the R1 release of the OTP middleware. He has taught Erlang/OTP to all parties involved in the software cycle, including developers, support engineers, testers as well as project and technical managers. In 2003, he also started teaching undergraduate students at the IT University of Gothenburg. Soon after Erlang was released as Open Source, he founded Erlang Training and Consulting. With offices in the UK, Sweden, Poland (and soon the US), they have become the world leaders an Erlang based consulting, contracting, support, training and systems development. Their client base is spread on five continents and ranges from small start-ups to blue chip companies. In his role as CTO, is currently leading the research, development and consulting teams. He is active in the Erlang community not only through regularly talks, seminars and tutorials at conferences worldwide, but also through his involvement in international research projects. He organises local Erlang user groups and with the help of his colleagues, runs the trapexit.org http://www.trapexit.org/ Erlang community website. Simon Thompson is Professor of Logic and Computation in the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent, where he has taught computing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for the past twenty five years, and where he has been department head for the last six. His research work has centered on functional programming: program verification, type systems, and most recently development of software tools for functional programming languages. His team has built the HaRe tool for refactoring Haskell programs, and is currently developing Wrangler to do the same for Erlang. His research has been funded by various agencies including EPSRC and the European Framework programme. His training is as a mathematician: he has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge and a D.Phil. in mathematical logic from Oxford. He has written three books in his field of interest; Type Theory and Functional Programming published in 1991; Miranda: The Craft of Functional Programming (1995) and Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (2nd ed. 1999). These are all published by Addison Wesley.

Inhaltsangabe

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Introduction
Why Should I Use Erlang?
The History of Erlang
Erlang s Characteristics
Erlang and Multicore
Case Studies
How Should I Use Erlang?
Chapter 2 Basic Erlang
Integers
The Erlang Shell
Floats
Atoms
Booleans
Tuples
Lists
Term Comparison
Variables
Complex Data Structures
Pattern Matching
Functions
Modules
Exercises
Chapter 3 Sequential Erlang
Conditional Evaluations
Guards
Built-in Functions
Recursion
Runtime Errors
Handling Errors
Library Modules
The Debugger
Exercises
Chapter 4 Concurrent Programming
Creating Processes
Message Passing
Receiving Messages
Registered Processes
Timeouts
Benchmarking
Process Skeletons
Tail Recursion and Memory Leaks
A Case Study on Concurrency-Oriented Programming
Race Conditions, Deadlocks, and Process Starvation
The Process Manager
Exercises
Chapter 5 Process Design Patterns
Client/Server Models
A Process Pattern Example
Finite State Machines
Event Managers and Handlers
Exercises
Chapter 6 Process Error Handling
Process Links and Exit Signals
Robust Systems
Exercises
Chapter 7 Records and Macros
Records
Macros
Exercises
Chapter 8 Software Upgrade
Upgrading Modules
Behind the Scenes
Upgrading Processes
The .erlang File
Exercise
Chapter 9 More Data Types and High-Level
Constructs
Functional Programming for Real
Funs and Higher-Order Functions
List Comprehensions
Binaries and Serialization
References
Exercises
Chapter 10 ETS and Dets Tables
ETS Tables
Dets Tables
A Mobile Subscriber Database Example
Exercises
Chapter 11 Distributed Programming in Erlang
Distributed Systems in Erlang
Distributed Computing in Erlang: The Basics
The epmd Process
Exercises
Chapter 12 OTP Behaviors
Introduction to OTP Behaviors
Generic Servers
Supervisors
Applications
Release Handling
Other Behaviors and Further Reading
Exercises
Chapter 13 Introducing Mnesia
When to Use Mnesia
Configuring Mnesia
Transactions
Partitioned Networks
Further Reading
Exercises
Chapter 14 GUI Programming with wxErlang
wxWidgets
wxErlang: An Erlang Binding for wxWidgets
A First Example: MicroBlog
The MiniBlog Example
Obtaining and Running wxErlang
Exercises
Chapter 15 Socket Programming
User Datagram Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol
The inet Module
Further Reading
Exercises
Chapter 16 Interfacing Erlang with Other Programming Languages
An Overview of Interworking
Interworking with Java
C Nodes
Erlang from the Unix Shell: erl_call
Port Programs Library Support for Communication
Linked-in Drivers and the FFI
Exercises
Chapter 17 Trace BIFs, the dbg Tracer, and Match Specifications
Introduction
The Trace BIFs
Tracing Calls with the trace_pattern BIF
The dbg Tracer
Match Specifications: The fun Syntax
Match Specifications: The Nuts and Bolts
Further Reading
Exercises
Chapter 18 Types and Documentation
Types in Erlang
TypEr: Success Types and Type Inference
Documentation with EDoc
Exercises
Chapter 19 EUnit and Test-Driven Development
Test-Driven Development
EUnit
The EUnit Infrastructure
Testing State-Based Systems
Testing Concurrent Programs in Erlang
Exercises
Chapter 20 Style and Efficiency
Applications and Modules
Processes and Concurrency
Stylistic Conventions
Coding Strategies
Efficiency
And Finally...
Appendix Using Erlang
Getting Started with Erlang
Tools for Erlang
Where to Learn More
Colophon

Rezensionen

"Auf 470 Seiten ist es den Autoren gelungen, den Leser bis ind ie Tiefen der Erlang-Entwicklung zu begleiten." -- iX, Juni 2010

"Das Buch 'Erlang Programming' ist eine absolut gelungene Rundum-Einführung in die vielen Aspekte des Programmierens in Erlang. Ein Buch, was man auch dann lesen sollte, wenn man nicht gerade konkret mit Erlang programmieren muss. Die hierin vermittelten Grundlagen sind wertvolles Allgemeinwissen, um das man nicht drumherumkommt. Klar und umfassend dargestellt kann man sich keine bessere Darstellung vorstellen. Ein Buch, das Türen öffnet und den Verständnishorizont enorm erweitert." -- IT-Stammtisch Darmstadt - März 2010