Erlang.

The article presents information on Erlang, a computer programming language available under an open-source license. It is described as a concurrent language which works well for multicore computers. Erlang was developed at the Ericsson telecommunications firm with an emphasis on fault-tolerance, and...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 9; pp. 68 - 76
Main Author: ARMSTRONG, JOE
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2010
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