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What type of programming based language do 'erlang' is?

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14th Dec 2016, 9:33 AM
Thirumalai vasan
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Erlang is a 'functional' programming language (same family as Haskell, Scala, Scheme, etc). Erlang was developed at Ericcson and was designed with a focus on massive parallelism - it's original domain was networking, but I think it is used more widely now (maybe Erlang experts can comment - I'm not one). In contrast C/C++/D/Java/C#/Go/Rust/Pascal/etc are all "imperative" procedural programming languages. There has been a few imperative languages (notably D - maybe others too) that incorporates some functional features - usually around functional purity.
14th Dec 2016, 9:59 AM
Ettienne Gilbert
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