With this guide you will learn how to write complex programs in Erlang same, regardless of your background or programming experience. Written by international Erlang community leaders - and based on their training material - Programming Erlang focuses on the language's syntax and semantics, and explain the pattern matching, the right list, recursion, debugging, networking, and concurrency. This book helps you: Understanding the power of Erlang and why designers that includes a special feature Learn the concepts behind the concurrency and how Erlang's handle Write programs Erlang efficiently while maintaining code Find neat and easy to read how Erlang meet the requirements of a distributed system Add graphical user interface is simple with minimal effort Learn Erlang's tracing mechanism to together and distributed debugging systems Use the built-in database Mnesia and other table features storage Programming Erlang provides exercises at the end of each chapter and simple examples in this book.