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cstejerean on June 30, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Pape...

Erlang isn't exactly new. Development started over 20 years ago and it has been open source for 10 years.

http://www.erlang.org/course/history.html

DaniFong on June 30, 2008 [–]

Sure, but that's around 20 years after the 70's, and the usefulness of the ideas wasn't well known until some time after that.

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