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ICFP '97: Proceedings of the second ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming

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This paper describes the development of the programming language Erlang during the period 1985--1997.Erlang is a concurrent programming language designed for programming large-scale distributed soft real-time control applications.The design of Erlang was heavily influenced by ideas from the logic and functional programming communities. Other sources of inspiration came from languages such as Chill and Ada which are used in industry for programming control systems.

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ICFP '97: Proceedings of the second ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming

August 1997

326 pages

ISBN:0897919181

DOI:10.1145/258948

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Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Mads Tofte
Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 32, Issue 8
Aug. 1997
322 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/258949
Chairmen:
Simon Peyton Jones
Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Mads Tofte
Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Editor:
A. Michael Berman
Rowan Univ. Glassboro, NJ
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