Talk:Erlang (programming language)

Name origin

I believe Erlang was ERgonomic LANGuage ? --> never heard about that

"Erlang is named after A. K. Erlang. It is sometimes mistakenly thought that its name is as abbreviation of ERicsson LANGuage, owing to its heavy use inside Ericsson."

Well, it's quite a pun because Erlang was created inside Ericsson, so its name is an abbreviation of ERicsson LANGuage too.

Movie

It looks like "Erlang the Movie" was taken down from the Erlang website, whether due to bandwidth cost or to sheer embarrassment it's not clear. If it ever shows up at some permanent-looking address, I recommend a link here. I do have a copy, but I'd rather not publish it myself (not least due to copyright concerns). --—Ashley Y 10:52, 2005 Apr 16 (UTC)

I removed the link some time ago - after seeing the size of this monster, I guessed only few would appreciate it. What was content of this movie? --Pavel Vozenilek 16:12, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It explains the features of Erlang. They make them clear by an example with a telephone central. --Ejabberd 22:50, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

There's a torrent of the movie available here: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3425809 -- Björn Lindström 22:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Google video has an 11 minute version. I don't know if it is the same as the downloadble one. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5830318882717959520 --Joshd 08:52, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

trapexit.org

I'd commented out link to this website: it looks dead, discussion forum is completely down. On main Erlang list I read that something there broke down in January and it doesn't seem to be fixed. When (if) the things will get better please uncomment the link. Thanks. Pavel Vozenilek 14:27, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

18 Aug 2006: I put in the link to www.trapexit.org as we have revived it :) /Mazen @ trapexit.org

Criticism, Review, Comparison?

I was hoping this page would tell me if the language was any good :) I wanted to see a criticism section, a brief mention of it's strengths and weakenesses, or a comparison to other languages used for the same purpose. Mathiastck 01:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Haskell Roots?

Does Erlang have an Haskell roots? Looking at quicksort, I'd say so, but I don't know. If so, what are they? --69.61.168.145 02:01, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Erlang predates Haskell by almost a decade. The similarity you observe between quicksort implementations is most likely because both languages are functional programming languages that emphasize recursion and provide good list manipulation capabilities. --Allan McInnes (talk) 04:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. Do you know if Haskell borrowed from Erlang? My comment was mostly a syntatic comment. Quicksort in Lisp/Scheme or OCaml look, syntatically, nothing like Erlang/Haskell, at least to me.--69.61.168.145 03:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]