2009 Session: Erlang - the language and its applications
Wednesday, 13:10 - 14:00
Track: Effective Languages
Erlang was designed specifically for programming fault-tolerant distributed soft real-time applications.
Erlang programs consists of large collections of thread-safe lightweight processes which spread over the available processors and cores.
This style of programming leads to systems which are robust, scalable and easy to understand. The core of the language is a small dynamically typed functional programming language.
Expectations
This talk introduces the main concepts of Erlang and describes some of the
Additional Info
Joe Armstrong
Joe Armstrong is the inventor of Erlang. He invented Erlang in 1986 and has worked with Erlang since then. He has a Ph.D. from KTH and worked as a computer scientist, Entrepreneur and Author. He is author of "Programming in Erlang".