Erlang (programming language)

Erlang is a general-purpose concurrent programming language and runtime system. The sequential subset of Erlang is a functional language, with strict evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. For concurrency it follows theActor model. It was designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications. The first version was developed by Joe Armstrong in 1986.^[1] It supports hot swapping thus code can be changed without stopping a system.^[2] Erlang was originally a proprietary language within Ericsson, but was released as open source in 1998.

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