Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-controlled nodes

Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by twic on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:29AM (#17219224)

"ErlangLang"?

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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by pritambaral on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:38AM (#17219247)

While 'ErlangLang' is obviously wrong, I should point out that the '-lang' part of 'Erlang' is not related to the root word 'language'. Perhaps the name 'Erlang' was chosen because it already ended in '-lang', perhaps not, I don't know. But it was quite likely named after the Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang.

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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by haneefmubarak on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:13AM (#17219599)

IIRC "ERicsson LANGuage" because it was created for networking stuff at Ericsson.

EDIT: Yep, we're actually both right! From the Wikipedia page:

> The name "Erlang", attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been presumed by those working on the telephony switches (for whom the language was designed) to be a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang as well as a syllabic abbreviation of "Ericsson Language".

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