Who invented Erlang?
During the 1980s there was a project at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory which aimed to find out what aspects of computer languages made it easier to program telecommunications systems. Erlang emerged in the second half of the 80s was the result of taking those features which made writing such systems simpler and avoiding those which made them more complex or error prone. The people involved at the start were Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding and Mike Williams. Others joined later and added things like distribution and OTP.