An interview with Erlang creator Joe Armstrong...
"What's behind the name Erlang?
"Either it's short for 'Ericsson Language' or it's named after the Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang. We have never revealed which of these is true, so you'll have to keep guessing!
"What prompted its creation?
"It was an accident. There was never a project 'to create a new programming language.' There was an Ericsson research project 'to find better ways of programming telephony applications' and Erlang was the result..." [Read more at CIO]
