Erlang Programming | Functional Programming | Concurrency
Learn Erlang, a general-purpose, concurrency-oriented functional programming language suitable for building fault-tolerant, distributed, and real-time systems.
Introduction
Erlang Programming book by Wikibooks covering Erlang language and functional programming concepts.
Highlights
- Erlang is a general purpose, concurrency-oriented functional programming language suited for fault-tolerant, distributed, soft real-time systems
- Features strong dynamic typing, lightweight concurrency, eager evaluation and prolog like pattern matching
- Developed in the 1980s at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory to address the need for telecommunications programming
- Suitable as a general-purpose programming language and well-suited to programming projects such as network servers, control systems and web development
Recommendation
This course is recommended for developers interested in learning a functional programming language with strong concurrency and distribution capabilities, especially those working in the telecommunications or network programming domains.
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