Erlang
- noun
- /ˈɜrˌlæŋ/
- Specialized
- Something like this would highlight both the commonality of the languages and the different approaches, e.g., an object-oriented approach in Ruby as distinguished from a concurrent approach in Erlang.
Examples
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The cores are coming! They will be laughed at in this mysterious future once a simple paradigm, perhaps in the form of a message-passing operator such as in Erlang, becomes a well-established meme.
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The same works for imagining how client/server programs should look in Ethereal, what processes and tables to have in Erlang programs, and what buffers and text properties to have in Emacs programs.
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Erlang5 provides a rich crash-dump facility for the Erlang runtime itself.
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And so the final answer is in fact that the interarrival time for random incidents under these Erlang type arrivals is an Erlang of order three.
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It's even better news for Erlang, which is the only industry-proven mostly functional (and implicitly parallel) language I know of out there.
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So you can cook up Erlang-style immutable messaging based on such events—or something similar.
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If you can afford to ditch the JVM, then you might like to look at more popular languages than Scala, like OCaml, Haskell, Erlang, and F#.
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Erlang is a standard unit used in telecommunications to measure Erlang based on continuous voice path usage.
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The traffic study revealed that two Erlang are needed to handle the call volume during peak hours.
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Telecommunications engineers often calculate Erlang values to determine how many simultaneous calls can be managed.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Erlang is named after a Danish engineer, Agner Krarup Erlang, who studied telephone traffic and created the first way to measure call load. One Erlang means 'one voice path in continuous use', so the unit carries his name because he invented how to count phone traffic.
