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by w8rbt 3900 days ago
OTP is an overloaded term, one-time pads, one-time passwords, etc. This one is Open Telecommunications Platform.
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seiji 3900 days ago
Yeah, OTP is an awful name because it's meaningless in the context of programming without reading history from the 1980s. It should really just be called "erlang library frameworks" or something similarly sensible.

This article is largely a copy/paste/reword job from the official erlang docs (http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/gen_server_conce...) too.

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simoncion 3900 days ago
I dunno. Something called "Open Telecom Platform" sounds very stodgy and reliable to me. :)
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TeMPOraL 3900 days ago
Also known as Outlaw Techno Psychobitch in Erlang community, per [0], as popularized by the creator of the famous "MongoDB is Web Scale". Context [1].

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ

[1] - http://www.gar1t.com/blog/otp.html

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