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Re:Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM by mrkeen on Friday April 17, 2020 @05:34PM (#22903191)
> Forgive me, I'm ignorant -- what's erlang for

Since one computer can fail, your programming language should be designed to be run on multiple computers. Erlang's the only language I know about that puts this philosophy first and foremost.

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Re:Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM by eggy on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:00PM (#22903374)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers

This proceeded Erlang by 24 years or so. I know it's not the language, and a combination of hardware and software, but they did change the instruction set of the HP 3000 to have paged virtual memory and "share-nothing" messaging system.

Also see the Pony language: https://www.ponylang.io/

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Re:Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM by macintux on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:53PM (#22904686)
Correction: about 10 years. Erlang was created in the mid-80s.
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