Erlang/OTP System Documentation

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The Erlang/OTP system documentation is a collection of guides describing how to use Erlang/OTP and different aspects of working with Erlang/OTP. The guides are:

  • Installation Guide - Describes how to build and install Erlang/OTP on Unix and Windows.
  • Getting Started With Erlang - Describes how to get up and running with programming Erlang.
  • System Principles - Describes how to build Erlang/OTP systems.
  • OTP Design Principles - Describes how to build Erlang/OTP applications.
  • Programming Examples - Examples on using records, funs, list comprehensions, and the bit syntax.
  • Erlang Reference Manual - This section is the Erlang reference manual. It describes the Erlang programming language.
  • Efficiency Guide - Describes how to write efficient code in Erlang-
  • Interoperability Tutorial - This section informs on interoperability, that is, information exchange, between Erlang and other programming languages. The included examples mainly treat interoperability between Erlang and C.
  • Embedded Systems User's Guide - This section describes the issues that are specific for running Erlang on an embedded system.
  • VEX Statements - This section describes how Erlang/OTP reports OpenVex statements and their meaning towards third parties.