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by Eventh 5312 days ago
"Erlang was designed to program fault-tolerant systems" according to Joe Armstrong [1].

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Systems-that-Never-Stop-J...
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DanWaterworth 5312 days ago
How do you make a system fault-tolerant? Make it distributed. How do distributed systems work? By communicating via a network.
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