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Computing Lab academic publishes "Erlang Programming" with O'Reilly Media
Simon Thompson, and his co-author Francesco Cesarini of Erlang Training and Consulting, have spent the last year writing their introduction to programming in Erlang, published by O'Reilly Media this week.
Erlang, and the OTP library and architecture, provide a platform for developing fault-tolerant, soft real-time systems, which can be scaled across distributed systems as well as porting to multi-core architectures with ease. Erlang originated in Ericsson's research labs in the 1980s, and in the 1990s made its way into front-line products such as the AXD301switch which provides BT's IP backbone in the UK. The last decade has seen Erlang released as open source, and its adoption by enterprises large and small for highly concurrent robust systems. Companies using Erlang include Amazon, Yahoo!, Facebook and T-mobile.
This introduction gives a high-level overview of the characteristics and features that have made Erlang successful, providing insight into the context in which the language was designed, and how this influenced its current shape.
The book has received four five-star ratings at amazon.com. Other reviews are available from the Erlang Programming web site ( http://www.erlangprogramming.org/ ).
Published 8 July 2009
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