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Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects 48

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @09:28AM from the still-coy-on-the-meaning dept.

Seal writes "Erlang, originally created at Ericsson in 1986, is a functional programming language which was released as open source around 10 years ago and flourished ever since. In this Q&A, Erlang creator Joe Armstrong talks about its beginnings as a control program for a telephone exchange, its flexibility and its modern day usage in open source programs. 'In the Erlang world we have over twenty years of experience with designing and implementing parallel algorithms. What we lose in sequential processing speed we win back in parallel performance and fault-tolerance,' Armstrong said. He also mentions how multi-core processors pushed the development of Erlang and the advantages of hot swapping."

Comment Organizing Your Information (Score 1) 325

by foote on Monday December 22, 2008 @12:55PM (#26202065) Attached to: Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author?

Science writer Olivia Judson has a post about tools for organizing the source materials for an article. I'd like to know what she writes the actual article with.

Here's her biographical blurb from the NY Times: Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, is the author of "Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex," which was made into a three-part television program. Ms. Judson has been a reporter for The Economist and has written for a number of other publications, including Nature, The Financial Times, The Atlantic and Natural History. She is a research fellow in biology at Imperial College London.

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