Erlang by Marcos Benevides
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Resources:
- Etudes for Erlang
- Joe Armstrong’s PHD thesis
The Erlang view of the world can be summarized in the following statments (Armstrong 2003):
- Everything is a process.
- Processes are strongly isolated.
- Process creation and destruction is a lightweight operation.
- Message passing is the only way for processes to interact.
- Processes have unique names.
- If you know the name of a process you can send it a message.
- Error handling is non-local.
- Processes do what they are supposed to do or fail.