1/11/2024 0 Comments Jpe Java Prolog EnvironmentAll 295 pages of Armstrong’s 2003 PhD thesis are online - titled “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors.” Submitted to the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, it describes research that Armstrong began in 1981 seeking better ways to program telecom applications, which “has resulted in the development of a new programming language (called Erlang), together with a design methodology, and set of libraries for building robust systems (called OTP).” The history is all hiding in plain sight. What gives this language its special place in the hearts of developers? Armstrong’s passing provided a moment for the developer community to reflect on what was special about this particular language, and what was unique about Armstrong’s approach to language design. Last June a presentation at the Code BEAM conference noted that every year Cisco ships about two million devices with Erlang, and that 90% of all internet traffic goes through Erlang controlled nodes. While Erlang grew out of work more than 33 years ago at the Swedish multinational telecom company Ericsson, its impact eventually spread throughout the world. The recent death of Joe Armstrong, one of the original designers of the Erlang programming language, has led to an outpouring of appreciation for his contributions to the state of computer science this week.
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