100 Years of Erlang
Quinn Wilton / @wilton_quinn / quinnwilton.com
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Joe Armstrong, 1950 - 2019
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The Computer Science Laboratory Team, circa 1988
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Joe Armstrong, A History of Erlang (2007)
of the many inventors of technical improvements in that historic period, most have remained anonymous. Few names have been recorded in the history of the telephone, most of them being completely unknown.
- Robert Chapuis, 100 Years of Telephone Switching (2003)
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The Boardman Building, first commercial telephone exchange
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George Willard Coy
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Notes about George W. Coy, University of Connecticut Library
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Hello Alexander.
Hello Watson!
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Notes about George W. Coy, University of Connecticut Library
The first telephone directory
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ELLEMTEL CS Lab Directory (as of 1994)
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Blueprint of Coy's Exchange
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An early exchange, modeled after Coy's, in Bridgeport, Connecticut
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Western Electric "Standard" Switchboard
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Almon Strowger
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Bjarne Däcker
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New-York tribune, December 7, 1919
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The Bamberg herald, February 27, 1913
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Strowger, at the height of his paranoia
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The Bamberg herald, February 27, 1913
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The Bamberg herald, February 27, 1913
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Strowger's nemesis. Probably.
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The Bamberg herald, February 27, 1913
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Up four, and over three
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The Bamberg herald, February 27, 1913
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Step-by-Step Switch
Step-by-Step Switch, front
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New-York tribune, December 7, 1919
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Patent for the "Two-Motion Strowger Switch"
Strowger Sunburst Dial, circa 1903
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AE 40 Monophone, circa 1940s
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circa 1902
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Abbeville Press and Banner, January 6 1892
New-York tribune, December 7, 1919
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Western Kansas World, November 5th 1892
A wall of two-motion selectors in a central office
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New-York tribune, December 7, 1919
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If you wish to make an erlang from scratch, you must first invent the uniselector
- Carl Sagan
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From chapter 13: "Programming Telephony", in "New Concepts in Parallel Programming"
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Ivar Jacobson
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defmodule Phone do
def idle() do
receive do
:off_hook ->
start_tone()
getting_number()
{:seize, pid} ->
send(pid, :seized)
start_ringing()
ringing_b_side()
end
end
defp getting_number() do
receive do
...
end
end
defp ringing_b_side() do
receive do
...
end
end
defp start_tone(), do: ...
defp start_ringing(), do: ...
end
phone = spawn(&Phone.idle/0)
send(phone, :off_hook)
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Magnus Fröberg
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Joe philosophizing, 1985
This seemed to me at the time a quite reasonable request—though I now realise that it was far more difficult than I had imagined
- Joe Armstrong, A History of Erlang (2007)
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Joe Armstrong, A History of Erlang (2007)
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Joe Armstrong, Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003)
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influenced_by(elixir, erlang).
influenced_by(elixir, clojure).
influenced_by(elixir, ruby).
influenced_by(erlang, lisp).
influenced_by(erlang, plex).
influenced_by(erlang, prolog).
influenced_by(erlang, smalltalk).
influenced_by(clojure, lisp).
influenced_by(clojure, erlang).
influenced_by(clojure, haskell).
influenced_by(clojure, java).
influenced_by(clojure, prolog).
ancestor_of(X, Y) :- influenced_by(Y, X).
ancestor_of(X, Y) :-
influenced_by(Y, Parent),
ancestor_of(X, Parent).
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Atom
Atom
Functor
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Strand: New Concepts in Parallel Programming, 1990
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UBF(B) specification for an IRC server
(types omitted for space)
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Joe Armstrong, Erlang Mailing List (2016)
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Joe Armstrong, Erlang Mailing List (2016)
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Research Roadmap for STARDUST
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I have this idea in which we’ll connect all of the worlds Erlang systems to each other, imagine if every process could talk to every other process, world-wide!
- Joe Armstrong
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Abbeville Press and Banner, September 28, 1892
100 Years of Erlang
By quinnwilton
100 Years of Erlang
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