Erlang for Java Developers

About Roger Hughes

You probably haven’t noticed, but it’s a couple of weeks since I last posted a blog. There is reason for this is that I’ve ruptured my Soleus and my leg is in a plaster cast. Being immobile I thought that it would be a good idea to investigate something totally different – it was either that or watch day time TV and, even though reruns of Kojak and Magnum PI were tempting, investigating Erlang came out tops.

The thing to remember here is that this is not an
Erlang tutorial, the idea here is to examine a few of the similarities between Erlang and Java in order to try an provide a starting point for learning Erlang. If I’ve made any howling mistakes, then hopefully someone with more Erlang experience will let me know.
When getting started, the first thing they tell you about Erlang is that it’s a functional language; however, before you have apoplexy at the thought, it’s such a well structured functional language that you’d think you were dealing with objects.

Source : http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/08/erlang-for-java-developers.html