Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects 48
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."
Why can't more people think like this... (Score:5, Insightful)
I wish that this could become a universal precept of software design, shaping everything from OS's to desktop apps -- Joe Armstrong: "Stopping a system to upgrade the code is an admission of failure."
flourished? (Score:3, Insightful)
define flourished.