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Recently I published a post about Haskell. Now, it’s time to visit Erlang programming languages. My links and discoveries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29

Erlang is a general-purpose concurrent, garbage-collected programming language and runtime system. The sequential subset of Erlang is a functional language, with strict evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. For concurrency it follows the Actor model. It was designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications. It supports hot swapping, so that code can be changed without stopping a system.^[1]

While threads are considered a complicated and error-prone topic in most languages, Erlang provides language-level features for creating and managing processes with the aim of simplifying concurrent programming. Though all concurrency is explicit in Erlang, processes communicate using message passing instead of shared variables, which removes the need for locks.

The first version was developed by Joe Armstrong in 1986.^[2] It was originally a proprietary language within Ericsson, but was released as open source in 1998.

Erlang Programming Language
http://www.erlang.org/

YouTube – Erlang: The Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78

Invited Tutorial Erlang
http://www.erlang.org/workshop/armstrong.pdf

Brief History of Erlang
http://www.erlang.org/course/history.html

Notes on A History of Erlang
http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/05/28/notes-on-a-history-of-erlang/

HOPL-III: A History of Erlang
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2811

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3405806/Erlanghistory

A history of Erlang
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1238850

CiteSeerX — Use of Prolog for developing a new programming language
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.3972
This paper describes how Prolog was used for the development of a new concurrent realtime symbolic programming language called Erlang.

Welcome to Erjang! – GitHub
https://github.com/trifork/erjang/wiki
Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java(tm).

InfoQ: Beam.js: Erlang Meets JavaScript
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Beamjs-Erlang-Meets-JavaScript

Erlang User Group Argentina
http://erlang.org.ar/P%C3%A1gina_Principal

LangDay – ErlangAr
http://erlang.org.ar/LangDay

InfoQ: Testing for the Unexpected
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Testing-for-the-Unexpected

InfoQ: Ville Tuulos on Big Data and Map/Reduce in Erlang and Python with Disco
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/tuulos-erlang-mapreduce

Functional Languages will Rule (but not this year) – Good Stuff
http://goodstuff.im/functional-languages-will-rule-but-not-this-y

InfoQ: Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson on Erlang
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/cesarini-thompson-erlang

Table of Contents | Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content

The Next Drupal? Zotonic: A Modern CMS Written in Erlang
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/05/the-next-drupal-zotonic.php

Computer Language Design: What’s List Comprehension and Why is It Harmful?
http://xahlee.org/comp/list_comprehension.html

Node.js vs Erlang: SyncPad’s Experience
http://blog.mysyncpad.com/post/2073441622/node-js-vs-erlang-syncpads-experience

Hacker News | They’re so different and yet so similar it’s probably best taking them one topic…
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414035

9 Programming Languages To Watch In 2011 | Regular Geek
http://regulargeek.com/2010/12/11/9-programming-languages-to-watch-in-2011/

InfoQ: Scala, Erlang, F# Creators Discuss Functional Languages
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/functional-langs

InfoQ: Computation Abstraction: Going Beyond Programming Language Glue
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Computation-Abstraction

Write A Template Compiler For Erlang
http://evanmiller.org/write-a-template-compiler-for-erlang.html

Erlang | September 2010 | Communications of the ACM
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/9/98014-erlang/fulltext

Ebot | Matteo Redaelli
http://www.redaelli.org/matteo-blog/projects/ebot/
Erlang Bot (Ebot) is an opensource web crawler written on top of Erlang,

The Lisp Before the End of My Lifetime
http://metalinguist.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/the-lisp-before-the-end-of-my-lifetime/
Networked & Concurrent Programming: Leaders in this area: Erlang

InfoQ: Steve Vinoski on Erlang and Rest
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/steve-vinoski-erlang-rest

Try Erlang
http://www.tryerlang.org/

String Calculator – Erlang » Software Craftsmanship – Katas
http://katas.softwarecraftsmanship.org/?p=96

InfoQ: Kresten Krab Thorup on Erjang, JVM Languages, Kilim
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/thorup-erjang

Avoiding Erlang deadlocks – Embrace change
http://mue.tideland.biz/avoiding-erlang-deadlocks

InfoQ: Horizontal Scalability via Transient, Shardable, and Share-Nothing Resources
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Horizontal-Scalability

Tidier: A refactoring tool for Erlang
http://tidier.softlab.ntua.gr:20000/tidier/getstarted

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks

Parsing SPARQL in Erlang with a monadic combinatory parser
http://antoniogarrote.lacoctelera.net/post/2009/11/01/parsing-sparql-in-erlang-with-monadic-combinatory-parser

Lisp Flavored Erlang
http://metajack.im/2009/01/09/lisp-flavored-erlang/

InfoQ: RPC and its Offspring: Convenient, Yet Fundamentally Flawed
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/vinoski-rpc-convenient-but-flawed

10 programming languages worth checking out – H3RALD
http://www.h3rald.com/articles/10-programming-languages/

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | What’s all this fuss about Erlang?
http://pragprog.com/articles/erlang

Jim McBeath: Actor Exceptions
http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2008/07/actor-exceptions.html

InfoQ: John Hughes Contrasts Erlang and Haskell
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Erlang-Haskell-John-Hughes

InfoQ: Systems that Never Stop (and Erlang)
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Systems-that-Never-Stop-Joe-Armstrong

The “Anti-For” Campaign – Matthew Podwysocki – CodeBetter.Com – Stuff you need to Code Better!
http://codebetter.com/blogs/matthew.podwysocki/archive/2009/06/26/the-anti-for-campaign.aspx

Luke Galea on Ruby and Erlang
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/galea-ruby

Functional programming in the Java language
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-fp.html

Contrasting Performance : Languages, styles and VMs – Java, Scala, Python, Erlang, Clojure, Ruby, Groovy, Javascript
http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2011/08/cperformance-comparison-languages-styles-and-vms-java-scala-python-erlang-clojure-ruby-groovy-javascript/

State You are doing wrong
http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/state-youre-doing-it-wrong-javaone-2009

Erlang vs. Scala – PlanetErlang
http://www.planeterlang.org/en/planet/article/Erlang_vs._Scala/

Minimal Erlang SMTP, POP3 server code « LShift Ltd.
http://www.lshift.net/blog/2007/09/20/minimal-erlang-smtp-pop3-server-code

PubSub is taking off – ProcessOne
http://www.process-one.net/en/blogs/article/pubsub_is_taking_off/

Humanist → Scalable Web Apps: Erlang + Python
http://humani.st/scalable-web-apps-erlang-python/

InfoQ: CouchDB From 10,000 Feet
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/couchDB-from-10K-feet

Erlang Factory London 2009
http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2009/talks

InfoQ: Domain Specific Languages in Erlang
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/dsl-erlang-dennis-byrne

Tic-tac-toe in Erlang — smart game space
http://nealabq.com/blog/2009/03/06/tic-tac-toe-erlang-smart-game-space/

The State of Axum
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/maestroteam/archive/2011/02/28/the-state-of-axum.aspx
How new C# features were influenced by Erlang
“I see axum as erlang done right and for the CLR, coouldnt be better!”

My links:
http://www.delicious.com/ajlopez/erlang

More links about functional programming are coming.

Keep tuned!

Angel “Java” Lopez
http://www.ajlopez.com
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