Obscure Book of the Day: Concurrent Programming in Erlang

Many esoteric computer languages are used primarily for research purposes and don't really have much to do with getting real work done.

Erlang is not one of those languages. Sure, it's not very well-known, and it's not even terribly old, but it is possible to use Erlang to build seriously powerful servers and frameworks.

If I were lucky enough to get into the Big Ass Web Farm business, I wouldn't use Java or C or C++. I'd use Erlang.

If you build BAWFs you should know about Eddieware, which is a BAWF-suite built in Erlang. Very cool stuff.