InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world

Video - Joe Armstrong - May 27, 2008

This is a video presentation by Joe Armstrong, one of the inventor of Erlang.

Summary

How do you program a multicore computer? Easy - do it in Erlang. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed for programming fault-tolerant systems. With share-nothing semantics and pure message passing, Erlang programs scales on multicore computers. In this talk, Joe introduces Erlang, the ideas of Concurrent Oriented Programming and commercial applications written in Erlang.

Bio

Joe Armstrong is the principle inventor of Erlang and coined the term “Concurrency Oriented Programming”. At Ericsson he developed Erlang and was chief architect of the Erlang/OTP system. In 1998 he formed Bluetail, which developed all its products in Erlang. In 2003 he obtain his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is author of the book “Software for a concurrent world”.



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