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A group for enthusiasts of Ericsson's peculiar but lovable programming language. Yeah message passing. We don't need any stinking locks!

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What is Erlang?

Erlang is a general-purpose concurrent 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.

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Comment by Stuart Malin on October 30, 2009 at 4:29pm: Great talk by Joe Armstrong at QCon regarding his "reverse engineering" of a theory underlying reliable systems:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Systems-that-Never-Stop-Joe-Arms...

Comment by Anders Conbere on August 29, 2009 at 7:17am: They call them Erl Lounges in the erlang community :) and I'd be interested.

Comment by Stuart Malin on August 29, 2009 at 2:27am: Thanks for the comments, gents. I am presently on the mainland (and have been for the summer), in southeast Florida for a number of weeks with my folks -- am looking forward to returning to Oahu, and when I do would love to have an Erlang get-together... if there is interest.

Comment by Daniel Leuck on August 27, 2009 at 8:51am: re: Erlang and EC2

Amazon's SimpleDB is written in Erlang, so I would be surprised if you had trouble.

Comment by Anders Conbere on August 27, 2009 at 8:06am: I've had no trouble running erlang on EC2 but that's mostly been for personal projects. And not really taking advantage of EC2 beyond using it as a virtual server host.

As for C-nodes I haven't used them but they strike me as very similar to erlang ports. http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/c_port.html#4 Which I have used when interfacing with python processes and is fairly straight forward (you pass data over stdout / stdin and read off the buffer). The port itself is an erlang process that provides process management for the external process.

Comment by Stuart Malin on August 27, 2009 at 7:39am: Good to know, Anders. I am very intrigued by Erlang and very enthused by its promise to aid me in building a fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed app. Have you any experience: (1) in running Erlang on AWS EC2? (2) building C-nodes?

Comment by Anders Conbere on August 27, 2009 at 7:32am: I've been writing erlang for a couple years now, both as part of a selection of hobby languages and as part of my work.

Comment by Stuart Malin on August 27, 2009 at 6:52am: Hi all. I've actually started actually programming in Erlang... am curious if other members of this group are actually programming in/with Erlang or have joined the group with just interest in Erlang...

Comment by Bill on July 8, 2009 at 8:16am: Ah nice logo. speaking of message passing has anyone spent much time in model checkers such as the LTSA or more heavily used SPIN?