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Princeton's WordNet
Erlangnoun
a unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system
Wiktionary
erlangnoun
A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
Etymology: From A. K. Erlang
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erlang
Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language and runtime system developed by Ericsson. It is used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. The Erlang runtime system is known for its designs that are well suited for systems with the following characteristics: distributed, fault-tolerant, soft real-time, highly available, non-stop applications.
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Erlang
Erlang is a general-purpose concurrent, garbage-collected programming language and runtime system. The sequential subset of Erlang is a functional language, with strict evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. It was designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications. It supports hot swapping, so that code can be changed without stopping a system. While threads require external library support in most languages, Erlang provides language-level features for creating and managing processes with the aim of simplifying concurrent programming. Though all concurrency is explicit in Erlang, processes communicate using message passing instead of shared variables, which removes the need for locks. The first version was developed by Joe Armstrong in 1986. It was originally a proprietary language within Ericsson, but was released as open source in 1998.
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angler
Langer
langer
largen
regnal
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of erlang in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of erlang in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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