Yeah, OTP is an awful name because it's meaningless in the context of programming without reading history from the 1980s. It should really just be called "erla

Yeah, OTP is an awful name because it's meaningless in the context of programming without reading history from the 1980s. It should really just be called "erlang library frameworks" or something similarly sensible. This article is largely a copy/paste/reword job from the official erlang docs (http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/gen_server_concepts.html http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/gen_server_conce...) too.