The development of Erlang

  • Authors:
  • Joe Armstrong

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Laboratory, Ericsson Telecom AB

  • Venue:
  • ICFP '97 Proceedings of the second ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper describes the development of the programming language Erlang during the period 1985--1997.Erlang is a concurrent programming language designed for programming large-scale distributed soft real-time control applications.The design of Erlang was heavily influenced by ideas from the logic and functional programming communities. Other sources of inspiration came from languages such as Chill and Ada which are used in industry for programming control systems.