alt Hacker NewsNeat! I always thought the name of the Erlang programming language just meant “Ericsson Language”, since this programming language was invented for Ericsson. Never knew there was anything more than that to the name!
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lawik • last Tuesday at 12:01 PM
According to Robert Virding at an unnamed bar in Berlin ~3 years ago they just wanted to be like Pascal in terms of picking a mathematician. But Ericsson Language certainly helped sell it internally, I'm sure.
And it was a pun by Ericsson engineers, as they used Erlang to program telephone switches where the capacity planing included Erlangs.