1. < person > A. K. Erlang . (The other senses were named after him).
2. A concurrent functional language for large industrial real-time systems by Armstrong, Williams and Virding of Ellemtel, Sweden.
Erlang is untyped. It has pattern matching syntax, recursion equations , explicit concurrency , asynchronous message passing and is relatively free from side-effects . It supports transparent cross- platform distribution. It has primitives for detecting run-time errors, real-time garbage collection , modules , dynamic code replacement (change code in a continuously running real-time system) and a foreign language interface .
An unsupported free version is available (subject to a non-commercial licence). Commercial versions with support are available from Erlang Systems AB . An interpreter in SICStus Prolog and compilers in C and Erlang are available for several Unix platforms .
Open Telecom Platform (OTP) is a set of libraries and tools.
Commercial version - sales, support, training, consultants. Open-source version - downloads, user-contributed software, mailing lists.
Training and consulting .
E-mail: erlang@erix.ericsson.se .
[Erlang - "Concurrent Programming in Erlang", J. Armstrong, M. & Williams R. Virding, Prentice Hall, 1993. ISBN 13-285792-8.]
3. 36 CCS per hour, or 1 call-second per second.
Erlang is a unit without dimension, accepted internationally for measuring the traffic intensity. This unit is defined as the aggregate of continuous occupation of a channel for one hour (3600 seconds). An intensity of one Erlang means the channel is continuously occupied.
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