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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+ <header>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2009</year>
+ <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <legalnotice>
+ The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
+ Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
+ compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
+ Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
+ retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
+
+ Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+ basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
+ the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
+ under the License.
+
+ </legalnotice>
+
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <prepared></prepared>
+ <docno></docno>
+ <date></date>
+ <rev></rev>
+ <file>intro.xml</file>
+ </header>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <p>This is a "kick start" tutorial to get you started with Erlang.
+ Everything here is true, but only part of the truth. For example,
+ I'll only tell you the simplest form of the syntax, not all
+ esoteric forms. Where I've greatly oversimplified things I'll
+ write *manual* which means there is lots more information to be
+ found in the Erlang book or in the <em>Erlang Reference Manual</em>.</p>
+ <p>I also assume that this isn't the first time you have touched a
+ computer and you have a basic idea about how they are programmed.
+ Don't worry, I won't assume you're a wizard programmer.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Things Left Out</title>
+ <p>In particular the following has been omitted:</p>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>References</item>
+ <item>Local error handling (catch/throw)</item>
+ <item>Single direction links (monitor)</item>
+ <item>Handling of binary data (binaries / bit syntax)</item>
+ <item>List comprehensions</item>
+ <item>How to communicate with the outside world and/or software
+ written in other languages (ports). There is however a separate
+ tutorial for this, <em>Interoperability Tutorial</em></item>
+ <item>Very few of the Erlang libraries have been touched on (for
+ example file handling)</item>
+ <item>OTP has been totally skipped and in consequence the Mnesia
+ database has been skipped.</item>
+ <item>Hash tables for Erlang terms (ETS)</item>
+ <item>Changing code in running systems</item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+</chapter>
+