I want to point out that a more correct name for that article can be "Erlang-supported types for people who are already aware with the idea of data types, but I will make a few comments targeted at the Python developer," albeit that title is a lot less succinct and sexy.<p>That article does very little to introduce functional or declarative programming style. It also doesn't introduce Erlang's process model or Erlang's strengths, but then again I don't expect it to given how brief it is.<p>It's a good otherwise.
On Stacktrace.it, we have an incredible series of articles on Scheme for Python programmers, but unfortunately, at the moment they're in Italian only:<p><a href="http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/02/le-avventure-di-un-pythonista-schemeland-1/" rel="nofollow">http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/02/le-avventure-di-un-pyt...</a>
<a href="http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/02/le-avventure-di-un-pythonista-schemeland-2/" rel="nofollow">http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/02/le-avventure-di-un-pyt...</a>
<a href="http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/02/le-avventure-di-un-pythonista-schemeland-3/" rel="nofollow">http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/02/le-avventure-di-un-pyt...</a>
<a href="http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/02/le-avventure-di-un-pythonista-schemeland4/" rel="nofollow">http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/02/le-avventure-di-un-pyt...</a>
<a href="http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/03/le-avventure-di-un-pythonista-schemeland5/" rel="nofollow">http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/03/le-avventure-di-un-pyt...</a>
<a href="http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/03/le-avventure-di-un-pythonista-schemeland6/" rel="nofollow">http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/03/le-avventure-di-un-pyt...</a>
<a href="http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/04/le-avventure-di-un-pythonista-schemeland7/" rel="nofollow">http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/04/le-avventure-di-un-pyt...</a>
<a href="http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/04/le-avventure-di-un-pythonista-schemeland8/" rel="nofollow">http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/04/le-avventure-di-un-pyt...</a>
Shoot, I thought he might have been referring to Candygram:
<a href="http://candygram.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow">http://candygram.sourceforge.net</a> (not to toot my own horn)<p>It isn't maintained anymore, though. But the LGPL'ed source is always available.