One of the main reasons for using Erlang instead of other functional languages is Erlang's ability to handle concurrency and distributed programming. By concurrency we mean programs which can …

Information about this implementation of Erlang can be found, for example, in System Principles (starting and stopping, boot scripts, code loading, error logging, creating target systems), Efficiency Guide …

It contains information about starting and stopping Erlang, accessing command line arguments, creating a boot file, code loading strategies, and Erlang applications.

We describe the language primitives which are needed to write distributed Erlang programs and explain how sets of Erlang process can be arranged to run on a network of Erlang nodes.

There is a new feature introduced in Erlang 5.1/OTP R8B, with which you can set a value to all fields in a record, overriding the defaults in the record specification.

Erlang/OTP should be possible to build from source on any Unix/Linux system, including OS X. You are advised to read the whole document before attempting to build and install Erlang/OTP.

Towards the end of 1987 the first major experiment with Erlang started—a group of Ericsson engineers at Bollmora, led by Kerstin ̈Odling, started work on a prototyping project. They chose Erlang to …

This manual describes a compiler which is directed towards the declarative language Erlang. In order to use this compiler, familiarity with the language Erlang is essential. Therefore, the runtime support for …

Binaries have received a makeover in the R12B release of Erlang with the introduction of bit strings and extended comprehensions as well as optimization of both binary construction and pattern matching.

Newcomers to Erlang are given a brief introduction to Erlang in Section 2 to aid them in understanding some of the Erlang jargon and syn-tax that Erlang programmers take for granted.