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On YouTube, the commenters say it plays like a Monty Python sketch. One guy even says it in Afrikaans: "Dit lyk vir my baie na 'n episode van Monty Python." But another guy jumps in with a caveat.

Erlang is a hip functional language, developed by Joe Armstrong of Ericsson in the 1980s that explicitly facilitates concurrent programming by enabling distinct parallel processes (as opposed to ...

In this extensive post, Computer Scientist and blogger JLouis goes the extra mile to dissect the Erlang programming language, urging the reader to go in with the realization that concurrency and ...

WhatsApp, the instant messaging service bought by Facebook last year for $19 billion (£13 billion), now has 900 million monthly users globally. The cofounders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, don't often ...

Functional programming experts Simon Thompson and John Hughes discuss functional programming in today’s computing environments, particularly through the use of the Erlang and Haskell languages. In ...