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Introducing Elixir
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Introducing Elixir

by Simon St. Laurent, J. David Eisenberg
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
210 pages
5h 9m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Overview

Elixir is an excellent language if you want to learn about functional programming, and with this hands-on introduction, you’ll discover just how powerful and fun Elixir can be. This language combines the robust functional programming of Erlang with a syntax similar to Ruby, and includes powerful features for metaprogramming.

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