Abstract

This paper describes the Erlang programming language and some of the applications which have been programmed in Erlang. Erlang has many language features more commonly associated with an operating system than a language. Concurrent processes, scheduling, garbage collection, etc., are all performed by the Erlang run-time system and not by the underlying operating system. The paper starts with a description of some of the requirements that we wanted to satisfy when designing the language. This is followed by a brief introduction to the language. Finally, we discuss some of the applications which have been programmed in Erlang. We have chosen to concentrate on three applications which are commercial products. 1

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