Erlang

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.