## page was renamed from MOTUUncommonProgrammingLanguages/Erlang
== About Erlang ==
{{{
A real-time, concurrent and distributed functional language.

Some of Erlang's main features are:
  Clear declarative syntax and is largely free from side-effects;
  Builtin support for real-time, concurrent and distributed programming;
  Designed for development of robust and continously operated programs;
  Dynamic code replacement at runtime.}}}
(taken from debian package description of erlang)

== Compilers/Interpreters ==
  * there must be some hidden in the erlang package. TODO

== Packaging Erlang ==
  * TODO
  * There is a very small debian Erlang packaging team, anyone interested in packaging software written in Erlang please consider contributing your work there: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ErlangPackagingTeam

== Which MOTU has knowledge? ==
  * ElliotMurphy (statik on Freenode) is not y etMOTU but is interested in Erlang packaging and has done some work on Erlang and CouchDB.

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