• Introduction
• History of the language
• programming paradigm
• Functional
• Highly recursive
• strict evaluation
• vs. lazy evaluation (advantages/disadvantages)
• single assignment (no re-assigning variables)
• prevention of side-effects
• dynamic typing
• Concurrent and distributed programming with Erlang
• The Actor model
• Explicit communication
• Hot code loading and modules
• Multiple versions of a module in memory running concurrently
• Best uses of Erlang
• Implications of high reliability
• Telecommunications
• The Open Telecom Platform (OTP)
• Solving problems that lend themselves to parallelism
• Popularity
• Clones (11 language ports)
• Overview of prominent projects
• Conclusion

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