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		sammyo on Sept 28, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Erlang 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.

bstadil on Sept 28, 2008 [–]

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

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