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Comment by cstejerean

18 years ago

Erlang isn't exactly new. Development started over 20 years ago and it has been open source for 10 years.

http://www.erlang.org/course/history.html

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DaniFong  18 years ago

Sure, but that's around 20 years after the 70's, and the usefulness of the ideas wasn't well known until some time after that.

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