Programming Lenguages: ERLANG

José Armando Balche Tuk

UADY
Mérida, México
armando_balche@outlook.com

Abstract— Erlang was developed by Ericsson to aid in the
development of software for managing a number of different
telecom projects, with the first version being released in 1986,
and the first open source release of the language in 1998. We can
see this in the extended Erlang release information where the
Open Telecom Platform (OTP), the application development
platform for Erlang, exists as the primary method of delivering
the Erlang development environment. This article will show an
overview of this programming language.
and you’re set. If you are a brave beginner tackling your
first programming language, this is easily your best bet.
On Linux or Mac OS X, you may be able to download the
source file and compile it. If the compilation approach doesn’t
work or isn’t for you, Erlang Solutions offers a number of
installs at
http://www.erlangsolutions.com/section/132/download-
erlangotp .

I. INTRODUCTION
Developed at Ericsson to serve on telephone switching
equipment, it seemed like a strangely special-purpose
language until recently, when our computer and network
architectures came to look a lot more like massively parallel
telephone-switching equipment.
Erlang provides a number of standard features not found in or
difficult to manage in other languages. Much of this Figure 1. Download page
functionality exists in Erlang because of it's telecom roots.
What is OTP?
For example, Erlang includes a very simple concurrency OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing
model, allowing individual blocks of code to be executed middle-ware to develop these systems. It includes its own
multiple times on the same host with relative ease. In addition distributed database, applications.
to this concurrency Erlang uses an error model that allows
failures within these processes to be identified and handled,
When installation finished, you have to add the path to the
even by a new process, which makes building highly fault
tolerant applications very easy. Finally, Erlang includes built- Command Prompt (Windows). Copy the addres of the bin
in distributed processing, allowing components to be run on file. The next figure shows it.
one machine while being requested from another.
Erlang currently occupies the 51st position of the top
programming languages IEEE’s. Figure 2. Address to copy

Next step, in the pc properties > advance settings>

Environment Variables > Edit > New .You have paste the
address.
II. INSTALATION. When finished this process, in the CM (Command Prompt)
type werl. In this moment, open the window of the editor
Erlang is officially available from
program Erlang.
http://www.erlang.org/download.html. On Windows, it’s easy.
Download the Windows binary file, run the installer,

Figure 3. Add to the path the address
III. COMPILER CHARACTERISTICS
A main difference between Erlang and more popular
languages is that Erlang is primarily a functional programming
language. This has nothing to do with whether it supports
functions, but is related to how the operation of programs and
components works.
With functional programming, the functions and
operations of the language are designed in a similar way to
mathematical calculations, in that the language operates on
functions taking input and generating a result. The functional
programming paradigm means that the individual blocks of
code can produce consistent output values for the same input
values. This makes predicting the output of the function or
program much easier and, therefore easier to debug and
analyze.
The contrasting programming paradigm is the imperative
programming language, such as Perl, or Java, which rely on
changing the state of the application during execution. The
change of state in imperative programming languages means
that the individual components of a program can produce
different results with the same input values, based on the state
of the program at the time.
IV. EXAMPLES
The functional programming approach is easy to
understand, but can be difficult to apply if you are used to the
more procedural and state-focused imperative languages..
V. CONCLUSION
The structure and format of Erlang programs is very
different to most other languages. Although many of the data
types and fundamental expressions are the same, their use and
application is slightly different. Single use variables, and the
significance of the evaluation of different expressions as
demonstrated through the pattern matching system provide
some powerful extensions to the typical language
environment. For example, the ability to define multiple
approaches to the same functions and employ pattern
matching for recursive calls simplifies some functions.
Next time we will look at the processes, message parsing,
and network facilities of Erlang, and take a look at the
MochiWeb HTTP server as a way of understanding the power
and flexibility of the language
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[3] Introduction to programming in Erlang, Part 1, Martin brown,
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-erlang1/index.html
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