"...They started using Python, then they switched to Rails, and finally settled on pure Erlang. Using Erlang, they replaced a combination of Lighttpd + RoR + SQLlite + XMLRpc + Jython + Lucene with the much simpler and highly scalable stack of Yaws + Mnesia + Erlang..."

"List comprehensions is very familiar topic for Python programmer. It’s a syntactic sugar which provides a succinct notation for producing elements in list. Erlang: ..."

"As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm in the process of evaluating the core infrastructure for a massively multiplayer on-line game (MMOG). The current technology contenders for the server are Stackless Python (and it's eventual successor PyPy) or Erlang..."

"In this short tutorial we will take a look at comparison operations, some arithmetic operations and modules..."

"Running the interactive erlang shell on a cellphone is pretty cool. Erlang’s built-in clustering support works fine: I’ve successfully connected an erlang node on my pc to a node on the phone using the USB ethernet support the phone provides."

Erlang certainly belongs in the category, and we've written about it several times before. Erlang is, among other things, a serious language: its best-known applications are in big mission-critical telecommunications systems, the German national air-traffic control organization, and Facebook's chat.

"If any language could be said to be ideally placed to deal with the challenges of the next 10 years it's Erlang. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of parallel and multi-core architectures, and natively supporting distributed systems coding, Erlang is a valuable addition to your programming skill set..."

"...Recently, I've heard a lot about Erlang, especially from curious members of the Ruby community. This article is the result of my quick dive into the language, and will hopefully serve as a starting point for anyone else who's been hearing the buzz, but hasn't taken the plunge yet..."

"Erlang virtual machine – BEAM – hosts an increasing number of languages. Reia, a Python/Ruby like scripting language and Lisp Flavoured Erlang have recently been released. Debasish Ghosh reflects on this trend while other authors try to outline other possible language variants inspired by Ruby or Haskell..."