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Re:Why Erlang by sammyo on Saturday September 27, 2008 @10:59PM (#317360)
Funny name?

Cheap & Easy? Woo! (thread creation that is)

I think it will not really take off until the general infrastructure (millions and millions of cores) is more generally pervasive.

Re:Why Erlang by bstadil on Sunday September 28, 2008 @05:19AM (#317530)
The name is in honor of a Danish mathematician that invented Queue theory. A key component earlier in the life of telephony. How to man switchboards and the like.

The telecom connection is via Erickson that invented the language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Erlang