The Development of Erlang

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 washeavily in uenced 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ICFP
• Authors: Joe L. Armstrong
• Keywords: Concurrent Programming Language, Functional Programming Communities, ICFP 1997, Programming Language Erlang, Programming Languages