On-line documentation

Erlang/OTP R14B02 documentation

Online www documentation for the run-time system as well as all the libraries. Also available as an archive of HTML documents from the download page Starting with R13B03, PDF documentation is included in the HTML package. Documentation for all releases is also available.

An Erlang course

A four day course in Erlang, with exercises. This course assumes no previous knowledge of parallel or functional programming.

Concurrent Programming in Erlang

Table of contents of the Erlang book.

Concurrent Programming in Erlang, Part I (pdf 884 KB)

The first part of the Erlang Reference book (by permission of Prentice Hall).

Programming rules

Program Development Using Erlang

A description of programming rules and advise for how to write systems using Erlang, also available in a PDF version.

Papers

Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors

Doctor's Thesis at KTH. Describes Erlang, OTP, how and why.

Concurrent Functional Programming for Telecommunications:
A Case Study of Technology Introduction

Licentiate Thesis at KTH. This tells the history of Erlang from 1987 until the end of year 2000.

The development of Erlang

In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, pages 196 - 203, ACM Press, 1997. This paper describes the development of Erlang during the period 1985-1997.

Erlang - A survey of the language and its industrial applications

In INAP'96. The 9'th Exhibitions and Symposium on Industrial Applications of Prolog. 16-18, October 1996. Hino, Tokyo Japan. The paper gives an overview of Erlang and describes three commercial products which are programmed in Erlang.

Mnesia - A distributed robust DBMS for telecommunications applications (PDF)

In First International Workshop on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL'99). A paper which is a nice introduction to the distributed Database Mnesia.

Articles

AXD 301--A new generation ATM switching system

Article in Ericsson Review No. 1, 1998. Describes the AXD301. Much of the AXD301 software is written using the Erlang/OTP libraries.

Open Telecom Platform

Article in Ericsson Review No. 1, 1997. Describes the Open Telecom Platform (OTP). OTP is written in Erlang.

ANx-High-speed Internet access

Article in Ericsson Review No. 01b, 1998. ANx is an ATM-based broadband access platform where the control system is built using Erlang/OTP.

Specifications

erl_spec47.ps.gz (358 KB)

The Erlang 4.7 specification. A very ambitious document that tries to describe in detail exactly the semantics of Erlang 4.7. The specification is 10 years old and does not reflect the language exactly as it is today.

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