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While 'ErlangLang' is obviously wrong, I should point out that the '-lang' part of 'Erlang' is not related to the root word 'language'. Perhaps the name 'Erlang
by pritambaral 8y ago
While 'ErlangLang' is obviously wrong, I should point out that the '-lang' part of 'Erlang' is not related to the root word 'language'. Perhaps the name 'Erlang' was chosen because it already ended in '-lang', perhaps not, I don't know. But it was quite likely named after the Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang.
- haneefmubarak 8y agoIIRC "ERicsson LANGuage" because it was created for networking stuff at Ericsson. EDIT: Yep, we're actually both right! From the Wikipedia page: > The name "Erlang", attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been presumed by those working on the telephony switches (for whom the language was designed) to be a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang as well as a syllabic abbreviation of "Ericsson Language".