A good background to Erlang is Armstrong's thesis, it really reads like a popular book http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf http://www.erlan

A good background to Erlang is Armstrong's thesis, it really reads like a popular book http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf. He discusses many of the points raised in the slides.