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Re:Programming Languages: What tool is right for which job? by Eventh on Sunday November 27, 2011 @03:20PM (#3283289)
"Erlang was designed to program fault-tolerant systems" according to Joe Armstrong [1].

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Systems-that-Never-Stop-J...

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Re:Programming Languages: What tool is right for which job? by DanWaterworth on Sunday November 27, 2011 @03:52PM (#3283379)
How do you make a system fault-tolerant? Make it distributed. How do distributed systems work? By communicating via a network.
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