1997: the development of erlang, joe armstrong

Erlang was designed for writing concurrent programs that “run forever.” ...

At the time Erlang was first implemented, the view that processes were part of the language rather than the operating system was not widely held (even today, it is a minority view). The only languages having this view of the world that we were aware of at that time were Ada (with tasks), EriPascal (an Ericsson dialect of Pascal with concurrent processes), Chill (with processes), PLEX (with its own special form of processes implemented in hardware) and Euclid.

a sort of erlang in 11 minutes, yet there is the original.

looking forward to one week hanging out with programmers at ecoop 2007 (30.07 - 03.08). at least some are asking in their workshops the same questions: how to get someone from [another planet] to these concepts. if i say abstraction and refactoring i mean something else, but the fun part is always to try to find a connecting point and to understand the "thinking behind" ... at least a little bit.

looking forward to listen to dave thomas. let's see if i will agree with - hm, how to find the snipped?

what it can mean to be open: a lot of management

The upcoming 2.6.22 release involved 920 developers | cw