Erlang Programming

Foreword; Preface; Francesco: Why Erlang?; Simon: Why Erlang?; Who Should Read This Book?; How to Read This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari?? Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Why Should I Use Erlang?; 1.2 The History of Erlang; 1.3 Erlang???s Characteristics; 1.4 Erlang and Multicore; 1.5 Case Studies; 1.6 How Should I Use Erlang?; Chapter 2: Basic Erlang; 2.1 Integers; 2.2 The Erlang Shell; 2.3 Floats; 2.4 Atoms; 2.5 Booleans; 2.6 Tuples; 2.7 Lists; 2.8 Term Comparison; 2.9 Variables; 2.10 Complex Data Structures; 2.11 Pattern Matching; 2.12 Functions; 2.13 Modules; 2.14 Exercises; Chapter 3: Sequential Erlang; 3.1 Conditional Evaluations; 3.2 Guards; 3.3 Built-in Functions; 3.4 Recursion; 3.5 Runtime Errors; 3.6 Handling Errors; 3.7 Library Modules; 3.8 The Debugger; 3.9 Exercises; Chapter 4: Concurrent Programming; 4.1 Creating Processes; 4.2 Message Passing; 4.3 Receiving Messages; 4.4 Registered Processes; 4.5 Timeouts; 4.6 Benchmarking; 4.7 Process Skeletons; 4.8 Tail Recursion and Memory Leaks; 4.9 A Case Study on Concurrency-Oriented Programming; 4.10 Race Conditions, Deadlocks, and Process Starvation; 4.11 The Process Manager; 4.12 Exercises; Chapter 5: Process Design Patterns; 5.1 Client/Server Models; 5.2 A Process Pattern Example; 5.3 Finite State Machines; 5.4 Event Managers and Handlers; 5.5 Exercises; Chapter 6: Process Error Handling; 6.1 Process Links and Exit Signals; 6.2 Robust Systems; 6.3 Exercises; Chapter 7: Records and Macros; 7.1 Records; 7.2 Macros; 7.3 Exercises; Chapter 8: Software Upgrade; 8.1 Upgrading Modules; 8.2 Behind the Scenes; 8.3 Upgrading Processes; 8.4 The .erlang File; 8.5 Exercise; Chapter 9: More Data Types and High-Level Constructs; 9.1 Functional Programming for Real; 9.2 Funs and Higher-Order Functions; 9.3 List Comprehensions; 9.4 Binaries and Serialization; 9.5 References; 9.6 Exercises; Chapter 10: ETS and Dets Tables; 10.1 ETS Tables; 10.2 Dets Tables; 10.3 A Mobile Subscriber Database Example; 10.4 Exercises; Chapter 11: Distributed Programming in Erlang; 11.1 Distributed Systems in Erlang; 11.2 Distributed Computing in Erlang: The Basics; 11.3 The epmd Process; 11.4 Exercises; Chapter 12: OTP Behaviors; 12.1 Introduction to OTP Behaviors; 12.2 Generic Servers; 12.3 Supervisors; 12.4 Applications; 12.5 Release Handling; 12.6 Other Behaviors and Further Reading; 12.7 Exercises; Chapter 13: Introducing Mnesia; 13.1 When to Use Mnesia; 13.2 Configuring Mnesia; 13.3 Transactions; 13.4 Partitioned Networks; 13.5 Further Reading; 13.6 Exercises; Chapter 14: GUI Programming with wxErlang; 14.1 wxWidgets; 14.2 wxErlang: An Erlang Binding for wxWidgets; 14.3 A First Example: MicroBlog; 14.4 The MiniBlog Example; 14.5 Obtaining and Running wxErlang; 14.6 Exercises; Chapter 15: Socket Programming; 15.1 User Datagram Protocol; 15.2 Transmission Control Protocol; 15.3 The inet Module; 15.4 Further Reading; 15.5 Exercises; Chapter 16: Interfacing Erlang with Other Programming Languages; 16.1 An Overview of Interworking; 16.2 Interworking with Java; 16.3 C Nodes; 16.4 Erlang from the Unix Shell: erl_call; 16.5 Port Programs; 16.6 Library Support for Communication; 16.7 Linked-in Drivers and the FFI; 16.8 Exercises; Chapter 17: Trace BIFs, the dbg Tracer, and Match Specifications; 17.1 Introduction; 17.2 The Trace BIFs; 17.3 Tracing Calls with the trace_pattern BIF; 17.4 The dbg Tracer; 17.5 Match Specifications: The fun Syntax; 17.6 Match Specifications: The Nuts and Bolts; 17.7 Further Reading; 17.8 Exercises; Chapter 18: Types and Documentation; 18.1 Types in Erlang; 18.2 TypEr: Success Types and Type Inference; 18.3 Documentation with EDoc; 18.4 Exercises; Chapter 19: EUnit and Test-Driven Development; 19.1 Test-Driven Development; 19.2 EUnit; 19.3 The EUnit Infrastructure; 19.4 Testing State-Based Systems; 19.5 Testing Concurrent Programs in Erlang; 19.6 Exercises; Chapter 20: Style and Efficiency; 20.1 Applications and Modules; 20.2 Processes and Concurrency; 20.3 Stylistic Conventions; 20.4 Coding Strategies; 20.5 Efficiency; 20.6 And Finally...; Using Erlang; Getting Started with Erlang; Tools for Erlang; Where to Learn More; Colophon;