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Implementing a functional language for highly parallel real time applications

@inproceedings{Armstrong1992ImplementingAF,
  title={Implementing a functional language for highly parallel real time applications},
  author={Joe L. Armstrong and Bjarne O. Dacker and S. R. Virding and Mike Williams},
  year={1992}
}
Erlang has been used internally in Ericsson for protof l typing switching systems and tens of thousands o ines of Erlang code have been written. Projects in t l which Erlang has been used have demonstrated a east an order of magnitude reduction in the work load e w of the specification programming testing cycl hen compared to projects using conventional techt E nology. The interpreter which was used to implemen rlang was, however, too slow for use in commercial 
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