= Features/Erlang R16 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Erlang_R16 Feature owner(s): Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@xxxxxxxxx> Update Erlang to the upstream R16 release. == Detailed description == Erlang is a general-purpose concurrent programming language and runtime system. The sequential subset of Erlang is a functional language, with strict evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. For concurrency it follows the Actor model. It was designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault- tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications. The first version was developed by Joe Armstrong in 1986. It supports hot swapping, thus code can be changed without stopping a system. Erlang was originally a proprietary language within Ericsson, but was released as open source in 1998. While threads are considered a complicated and error-prone topic in most languages, Erlang provides language-level features for creating and managing processes with the aim of simplifying concurrent programming. Though all concurrency is explicit in Erlang, processes communicate using message passing instead of shared variables, which removes the need for locks. The above text was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29 The status of Erlang and related packages in Fedora/EPEL is shown at Erlang SIG page - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Erlang#Current_packages _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
