Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. communication A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system
Etymologies
- From A. K. Erlang (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thus, it is not necessary to specifythe module name and both the calls erlang: atom_to_list (Erlang) are identical.”
“If you want to bereally sure not to return you can call erlang: error (erlang: raise (Class, Reason, Stacktrace)).”
“Suspendee should previously have beensuspended via erlang: suspend_process / 1by the process calling erlang: resume_process (Suspendee).”
“If this flag is not given, tracemessages will be sent to the process that called erlang: trace / 3.”
“= ERROR REPORT = = = = 28-Nov-2009:: 20: 49: 11 = = = file: path_eval ([ ".", "/var/lib/ejabberd"], ". erlang"): permission denied”
“Now I need to know what plugins I need to make the python/ruby/erlang support as good as it is in TextMate/emacs!”
Useful jEdit plugin: XML (HTML) Indenter. And switching back to jEdit from UltraEdit.
“It doesn't take much work to get ejabberd going, but you will have to do some minor hand-editing of its configuration files-which are basically erlang code.”
“The erlang-based ejabberd is generally regarded as the best option for large deployments because it scales well and offers good performance for intensive messaging workloads.”
“There are some more sophisticated actor examples on the old GParallelizer nice article on the key concepts behind actors in erlang and scala.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘erlang’.
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Programming Languages
The last time someone tried this theme, it was a closed list with only two words; time to make amends. Scripting languages, etc. are also fair game...
c, c++, java, pascal, delphi, python, perl, lisp, algol, cobol, ada, apl and 121 more...
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Names of People/Animals Real/Fiction ...
dickensian, wagnerian, daliesque, ghandian, kafkaesque, faulknerian, jungian, freudian, elizabethan, charlemagne, shakespearian, chekovian and 467 more...
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The Measure of Man
Unusual, arcane, or obscure units of measure
cable, cabot, bushel, cade, caliper, callipic cycle, metonic cycle, cunit, air watt, ale gallon, allergy unit, amber and 228 more...
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Units
Oddball units of measurement that catch my fancy
See also reesetee's excellent list The Measure of Man@, apgar score, amphora, amber, aeon, animal unit, degree twaddle (°tw), degree lovibond (°l), degree macmichael..., degree dornic (°d), degree soxhlet-he..., degree therner (°th) and 32 more...
Tweets
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reesetee It can be both, no? Nov 6, 2007
shanglee I always thought Er Lang was a God. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Er_Lang. Nov 6, 2007
reesetee A dimensionless "unit" representing a traffic density of one call-second per second (or one call-hour per hour, etc.). Named after A. K. Erlang, a Danish mathematician who studied the mathematics of telephone networks. Nov 6, 2007