Francesco Cesarini interviewed at OSCON 2010
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Erlang goes open source December 1998 to grow community and ease Ericsson hiring; OTP middleware and Ericsson prototypes seed a language aimed at switching and concurrent servers, not heavy numeric work. Deployments now include telecom, banking, instant messaging and embedded devices. Erlang favors short-lived processes and actor-style concurrency, borrows from functional languages, and scales linearly to ~32 cores with work toward 64. Weak spots: not for number crunching or massive I/O/GUI.
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