Inside Erlang – creator Joe Armstrong tells his storyJoe Armstrong was a long-time employee of Ericsson. He joined the company in 1985 and within a year had developed an early version of Erlang. Armstrong designed Erlang with the aim of improving the development of telephony applications by creating a language better tailored to its needs. The initial version of Erlang was influenced by the programming language PLEX – used in earlier Ericsson exchan
