Since the last few posts I’ve moved on from Haskell and am now looking at Erlang, another functional language developed by Ericsson and released as open source in 1998. I’ll start by giving and explaining the code for a simple “Hello World!” program.

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Recently I have decided to teach myself the Haskell programming langauge. My first step was to grab a copy of the O’Reilly book on the langauge, which while slightly out of date, I can highly recommend. After digesting the earlier chapters, I was ready to write some simple programs. The first being the obligatory “Hello World!” program, which is incredibly simple.

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