[cmrdporcupine]

Totally! I worked for a time, in the mid 00s, at a company that built realtime dashboards for old school telephone call centres (contact centers) and it was there that I became aware of the other (original) meaning of Erlang, beyond the nifty cool up and coming programming language.

For a while for me everything was about queuing theory. Since then I keep forgetting and remembering things about this later.

Strikes me that I would like to have an easy to use and generic library for Rust with the various formulas etc. in it.

[jrochkind1]

What's the other original meaning? Googling I find no meanings except the programming language, although it was originally used by telecom. But it seems to be the same language originally used by telecom that is now getting use elsewhere, not two languages with the same name or two meanings, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)

[pdpi]

Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and originator of queueing theory. The language is named after him.

[pgt]

Ahh, thanks! I had always assumed it was named after the Er- in Ericsson :).

[cmrdporcupine]

I think it's a clever name pulling from both.

[dadadad100]

Google harder :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit)

[kgwgk]

Or look into TFA - it (person, distribution, unit) appears ten times :-)

[jrochkind1]

Nice, thanks!