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Funny name? Cheap & Easy? Woo! (thread creation that is) I think it will not really take off until the general infrastructure (millions and millions of cores

by sammyo 18y ago

Funny name? Cheap & Easy? Woo! (thread creation that is) I think it will not really take off until the general infrastructure (millions and millions of cores) is more generally pervasive.

bstadil 18y ago
The name is in honor of a Danish mathematician that invented Queue theory. A key component earlier in the life of telephony. How to man switchboards and the like. The telecom connection is via Erickson that invented the language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Erlang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Erlang