# Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Erlang

DevFeed: [Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Erlang](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks-erlang-37840.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://carlosbecker.com/posts/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks-erlang/>)

Author: Carlos Alexandro Becker

Published: 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Carlos Becker](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/carlos-becker.md>)

Topics: [Erlang](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/erlang.md>), [Concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrency.md>), [function](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/function.md>), [pattern matching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pattern-matching.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [erlang](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/erlang.md>), [function](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/function.md>), [pattern-matching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pattern-matching.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [recursion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recursion.md>)

## AI overview

A beginner documents working through Erlang exercises from "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks," covering recursion, pattern matching, list comprehensions, regular expressions, concurrency, process monitoring, and process restarts. The author notes that some solutions may contain errors while learning the language.

## Source excerpt

So, I just bought "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks". I've read the Ruby chapter, not a big deal at all, so I skipped it. I also skip Io, Prolog and Scala (for now), and then, fall in Erlang!