Publications

• Concurrent Programming in Erlang
  This is the Erlang reference. Read it and enjoy.
• Erlang - an experimental telephony programming language.
  J. L. Armstrong and S. R. Virding. XIII International Switching Symposium, Stockholm May 27 - June 1, 1990
  This is the first "Erlang" paper - it describes the main characteristics of the language. Observant readers will observe that the Erlang syntax in this paper differs for the current syntax - this paper was written before the great syntax wars
• Implementing a functional language for highly parallel real-time applications
  J. L. Armstrong, B.O.Däcker, S. R. Virding and M. C. Williams. Software Engineering for Telecommunication Switching Systems, March 30 - April 1, 1992 Florence.
  This paper describes a fast, highly portable implementation of Erlang. The paper gives examples of compilation of Erlang to abstract machine code and discusses issues involved in the implementation of the abstract machine. language.
  
• Use of prolog for developing a new programming language.
  J. L. Armstrong, S. R. Virding and M. C. Williams The Practical Application of Prolog" London 1 -- 3 april 1992
  This paper describes how Erlang was developed. The first implementation of Erlang was as a prolog interpreter - this paper has the prolog code for a simple meta-interpreter which was the basis for Erlang.
• One Pass Real-Time Generational Mark-Sweep Garbage Collection
  Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding - in IWMM'95
  This paper describes a single-passs mark-sweep garbage collection algorithm which is suitable for real-time generational garbage collection.
• Erlang - A survey of the language and its industrial applications
  Joe Armstrong - in INAP'96. The 9'th Exhibitions and Symposium on Industrial Applications of Prolog. 16-18, October 1996. Hino, Tokyo Japan
  The paper gives an overview of Erlang and describes three commercial products which are programmed in Erlang.
  
• The development of Erlang
  Joe Armstrong,
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, pages 196 - 203, ACM Press, 1997.
  This invited paper describes the development of Erlang during the period 1985-1997.