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[Erlang | http://www.erlang.org/] 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]. |
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Strengths: |
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* Massively multithreaded - can run tens of thousands of concurrent erlang-processes in a single OS process with no locking. |
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* 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. |
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* Huge standard library ErlangOtp that makes writing reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant programs easy. |
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* Parallel garbage collection (GC on per erlang-process basis, GC of one erlang-process doesn't block any other erlang-process) |
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Ideal for writing applications for telcos and for many other domains where scalable fault-tolerant systems are a requirement. |
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!!! Resources |
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* Web sites |
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** [http://www.erlang.org] |
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** [http://www.trapexit.org] |
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AristotlePagaltzis |
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CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryFunctionalProgrammingLanguages |
