Introduction

Erlang is a programming language created in the Computer Science lab at Ericsson in Sweden in the late 1980s. The above prompt represents an Erlang shell, where you can try the full power of Erlang (well, sort of). To start this tutorial please type ok..

Please note that in Erlang every instruction must be terminated by a DOT (.), and to have it evaluated type Enter.!

Learn More about Erlang

To learn more about Erlang, have a look to the Erlang Programming book, written by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson, and published by O'Reilly.