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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].

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]

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Last edited on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 7:26:52 pm by GeoffCant

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