Erlang
Erlang - Fault-tolerant concurrent language
Erlang is a functional language with lightweight processes, message passing, hot code swapping, and 'let it crash' philosophy for telecom systems.
Category
Concurrent / Functional
First Release
1986
File Extension
.erl
Creator
Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, Mike Williams
Difficulty
Advanced 3/3
Actor model concurrency, pattern matching, immutability, and distributed supervision trees require paradigm shift from shared-memory programming.