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在学习一门语言之前，首先要了解它的特点，以及与其他语言的区别。
下面这一段是Armstrong在扉页上写的一段话：
The world is parallel.
If we want to write programs that behave as other objects behave in
the real world, then these programs will have a concurrent structure.
Use a language that was designed for writing concurrent applications,
and development becomes a lot easier.
Erlang programs model how we think and interact.

强调了两点：一是parallel，二是concurrent。

也就是说Erlang本身就是支持并行和并发的。

（小恶魔：在这时，我们不禁要问，难道其他的语言就不支持并行并发了吗？）

Contents
Begin
Getting Started
Sequential Programming
Exceptions
Advanced Sequential Programming
Compiling and Running Your Program
Concurrency
Concurrent Programming
Errors in Concurrent Programs
Distributed Programming
IRC Lite
Interfacing Techniques
Programming with Files
Programming with Sockets
ETS and DETS: Large Data Storage Mechanisms
OTP Introduction
Mnesia: The Erlang Database
Making a System with OTP
Multicore Prelude
Programming Multicore CPUs

看了目录之后，Sequential - Concurrency - Distributed - Multicore