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Hello, Joe!

The BEAM community has had a tradition of writing Hello World programs where we say Hello to Joe Armstrong, one of the creators or Erlang.

We can do this by creating a new file, called hello_joe.ml with the following contents:

let hello () = Io.format "~p" ["Hello, Joe!"]

Now we can compile this by calling caramel compile hello_joe.ml:

$ ls
hello_joe.ml
$ caramel compile hello_joe.ml
$ ls
hello_joe.ml  hello_joe.erl

Our new compiled file, hello_joe.erl should looks like this:

% Source code Generated by Caramel
-module(hello_joe).

-export([hello/0]).

hello() -> io:format(<<"~p">>, [<<"Hello, Joe!">>]).

Now we can compile and run this Erlang code