Erlang is a simple functional programming language used for writing distributed real time systems, particularly telecommunications systems. It doesn't seem quite as horrible as Haskell.

Strengths:

• Massively multithreaded - can run tens of thousands of concurrent erlang-processes in a single OS process with no locking.
• Distributed - erlang programs can spawn erlang-processes on any node within an erlang cluster. Erlang code is usually written so that it is easy to migrate between hosts/nodes.
• Huge standard library ErlangOtp? that makes writing reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant programs easy.
• Parallel garbage collection (GC on per erlang-process basis, GC of one erlang-process doesn't block any other erlang-process)

Ideal for writing applications for telcos and for many other domains where scalable fault-tolerant systems are a requirement.

Resources

• Web sites

  • http://www.erlang.org
  • http://www.trapexit.org

CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryFunctionalProgrammingLanguages