Introduction to programming in Erlang (developerWorks)

There is an introduction to the Erlang programming language (the first part in a series) on the developerWorks site. "Erlang provides a number of standard features not found in or difficult to manage in other languages. Much of this functionality exists in Erlang because of it's telecom roots. For example, Erlang includes a very simple concurrency model, allowing individual blocks of code to be executed multiple times on the same host with relative ease. In addition to this concurrency Erlang uses an error model that allows failures within these processes to be identified and handled, even by a new process, which makes building highly fault tolerant applications very easy. Finally, Erlang includes built-in distributed processing, allowing components to be run on one machine while being requested from another."

Comments (7 posted)