The Erlang book is shipping. On Friday, the truck arrived and we hefted the cases in (mmmm... new book smell), and over the weekend we worked out the logistics. Then today we shipped all the preorders for Joe Armstrong's new Programming Erlang.
I'm really excited about this book, both because I think Erlang's style of message-passing concurrency is just what we need as we enter the multi-core world, and also because I think its functional roots are an interesting way of thinking about programming. I'm blown away by the interest we've seen in this book from Ruby, Java, and C# programmers. I think there's a definite sea change in progress.
Congrats on shipping another book Dave.
Posted by: Jared | July 16, 2007 at 02:50 PM
Congrats on the book, Dave. My August TODO list has just one entry now: 'Learn Erlang.'
Any chance of the Pragmatic Studio putting on an Erlang conference/studio in the near future?
Posted by: jim | July 16, 2007 at 02:55 PM
Jim:
We'd love to, but we need to find the time to get material together. Joe's pretty busy right now with Erlang work...
Dave
Posted by: Dave Thomas | July 16, 2007 at 03:06 PM
I think a book on BDD or TDD done right would be righteous ! :) There are so many different ways to do testing in rails, perhaps if a book was done on rspec and rcov, people would start to learn how to test before they write their code. Your thoughts?
Posted by: Lance Carlson | July 20, 2007 at 08:02 PM
Don't forget us Objective-C and Python programmers. :-)
I loved the book, and am looking forward to getting my paper copy. Congratulations on shipping!
Posted by: Andrew Wooster | July 26, 2007 at 12:30 AM
I love this book, really like Erlang. I am glad someone with a clue wrote it.
Posted by: Mr ! Man | October 11, 2007 at 07:17 PM