Erlang Tutorial

Discuss Erlang
Erlang is a general purpose or you might say a functional programming language and runtime environment. It was built in such a way that it had inherent support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang was originally developed to be used in several large telecommunication systems. Bu
Erlang - Performance
When talking about performance the following points need to be noted about Erlang.
Erlang - Databases
Erlang has the ability to connect to the traditional databases such as SQL Server and Oracle. Erlang has an inbuilt odbc library that can be used to work with databases.
Erlang - Guards
Guards are constructs that we can use to increase the power of pattern matching. Using guards, we can perform simple tests and comparisons on the variables in a pattern.
Erlang - Header Files
Header files are like include files in any other programming language. It is useful for splitting modules into different files and then accessing these header files into separate programs. To see header files in action, let’s look at one of our earlier examples of records.
Erlang - Exceptions
Exception handling is required in any programming language to handle the runtime errors so that normal flow of the application can be maintained. Exception normally disrupts the normal flow of the application, which is the reason why we need to use Exception handling in our application.

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