The first version was developed by Joe Armstrong in 1986. It was originally a proprietary language within Ericsson, but was released as open source in 1998.
Erlang belongs to the family of pattern-matching languages, which amounts to tons ofnstructural tests and value tests being done all the time in Erlang code.
The name of Erlang attributed to Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929) was a Danish mathematician who developed a theory of stochastic processes in statistical equilibrium.
This programming is a general-purpose concurrent, garbage-collected programming language and runtime system. The sequential subset of Erlang is a functional language, with strict evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing.
Concurrency is explicit and the user can precisely control which computations are performed sequentially and which are performed in parallel.
Erlang language
