A couple of years ago a lot of buzz started in the Ruby community about Erlang, a functional programming language developed by Ericsson originally for use in telecommunications systems. I was intrigued by the talk of fault tolerance and concurrency, two of the cornerstones that Erlang was built on, so I ordered the Programming Erlang book written by Joe Armstrong and published by the Pragmatic Pro
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