[November 20 2008] 14th International Erlang/OTP User Conference (EUC'08)

The 14th International Erlang/OTP User Conference took place in Stockholm on November 13, 2008. See the conference proceedings here.

[Nov 5, 2008] Erlang/OTP R12B-5 released

The fifth service release for Erlang/OTP R12B has been released.

Some highlights in this release are:

• Eunit, an application for unit testing of Erlang modules is now part of the distribution.
• User defined attributes can now contain the syntax FuncName/Arity. (An implementation of EEP-24.)
• Read the complete list of bug fixes and new functions in the readme file.

Download the new release from the download page.

[October 10 2008] Seventh ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop

The Seventh ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop took place on September 27, 2008 in connection with the ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Please see the workshop proceedings here.

Erlang book!

Programming Erlang, Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong is available from Pragmatic Bookshelf. This is the most recent book about Erlang (June 2007) but there are more books on their way. For more information, look here.