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Over a Century of Programming 01:00:10 by **Mike Williams, Joe Armstrong & Robert Virding** (2013)
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Keynote: Over a Century of Programming - Mike Williams, Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding
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- Presented by Mike Williams, Joe Armstrong, and Robert Virding, co-creators of Erlang
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Programming languagesHistory and cultureElixir and ErlangLanguage design and type systemsConcurrency and parallelism
Mike Williams, Joe Armstrong, and Robert Virding reflect on their programming experience and how it influenced the design of Erlang.
Erlang User Conference 2013 More info and slides on the website: erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2013/talks The three of us (Joe, Robert and Mike) have more than 100 years combined experience of programming. We have noticed the vast majority of software development projects use programming languages based on concepts which were developed close on a half a century ago. Tools and development environments have changed, but with few exceptions the basic paradigms remain the same. We will reflect on our experience, what is good, what is bad and what is ugly. How did the past and our experience influence us when we developed Erlang.Why it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an insightful talk on the history, design, and fault-tolerance goals of the Erlang programming language.
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On “Functional Programming in Telecommunications?”
u/BigBobSmall is correct that Erlang has proven itself to be a language where it is easy to write extremely fault tolerant systems (systems with nine 9s uptime in some cases) and that is one reason it is still used today (personaly I also think it is a joy to write in).
I would also argue that a big reason as to why it is used still is that it was designed and created specifically to solve the problems in the telco domain (it was originally made for a big telephone switch), it was also created at Ericsson, a really big player in the telco business. here is a talk by the three inventors of Erlang going over some of it's history