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