Erlang for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: This Programming Language to Develop Distributed Software Applications"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Erlang is a computer language for developing distributed computer applications for networks. It was named for the Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang, the originator of queueing theory. It was developed by the Ericsson Computer Sciences Lab to develop software for their own telecommunications products.

Erlang is available as open source code, and its supporters claim it's superior to Java

Like that language, it has a virtual machine and supports multithreading and garbage collecting of unused memory.

It is a concurrent functional language, meaning it emphasizes the evaluation of expressions rather than the execution of commands. It is designed so that a program can be distributed and run on any machine in a network. They provide interfaces to other languages such as C, C++ and Java.

Erlang also includes support for other network technologies, such as an HTTP server, a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent, a Common Object Request Broker Architecture / CORBA interface and a fully distributed database engine.

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