Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects

Seal writes "Erlang, originally created at Ericsson in 1986, is a functional programming language which was released as open source around 10 years ago and flourished ever since. In this Q&A, Erlang creator Joe Armstrong talks about its beginnings as a control program for a telephone exchange, its flexibility and its modern day usage in open source programs. 'In the Erlang world we have over twenty years of experience with designing and implementing parallel algorithms. What we lose in sequential processing speed we win back in parallel performance and fault-tolerance,' Armstrong said. He also mentions how multi-core processors pushed the development of Erlang and the advantages of hot swapping."

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On that note..

[bigattichouse]

Anyone have an Erlang background, or some low level C or similar experience and live in the Chicago area (we're just south of the Loop)

I'm actively involved in a startup that is developing a large project in Erlang, looking for some additional folks to add to our team.

It's problematic trying to find people with the right skillset, since it isn't just "Erlang" we're looking for - its the general high-volume, high-availability skillset and a deep interest in learning Erlang. I didn't even know much about it before the project. So, fire away on the resumes:

bigattichouse@gmail.com