= Features/Erlang R16 =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Erlang_R16
Feature owner(s): Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com>
Update Erlang to the upstream R16 release.
== Detailed description ==
Erlang is a general-purpose concurrent programming language and runtime
system. The sequential subset of Erlang is a functional language, with strict
evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. For concurrency it follows
the Actor model. It was designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-
tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications. The first version was
developed by Joe Armstrong in 1986. It supports hot swapping, thus code can be
changed without stopping a system. Erlang was originally a proprietary
language within Ericsson, but was released as open source in 1998.
While threads are considered a complicated and error-prone topic in most
languages, Erlang provides language-level features for creating and managing
processes with the aim of simplifying concurrent programming. Though all
concurrency is explicit in Erlang, processes communicate using message passing
instead of shared variables, which removes the need for locks.
The above text was taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29
The status of Erlang and related packages in Fedora/EPEL is shown at Erlang
SIG page -
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Erlang#Current_packages