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Lisp Flavoured Erlang 0.2 has been released. It is a Lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler.

This release includes: separate variable and function namespaces, macro-related cleanups, pattern aliases, and other changes.

Erlang/OTP R12B-2 has been released. Erlang is a general-purpose language, offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

This release includes bug fixes.

The Erlang eXchange Conference has been announced. It will be held on June 26 and 27, 2008, in London, UK.

Erlang/OTP R12B-1 has been released. Erlang is a general-purpose language, offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

This release includes bug fixes.

The Seventh ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop has put out a call for papers. "This workshop will bring together the open source, academic, and industrial programming communities of Erlang. It will enable participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools tailored to Erlang, novel applications, draw lessons from users' experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang and functional programming."

The submission deadline is June 10, 2008. The workshop will take place from September 22 to 24, 2008, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Erlang/OTP R12B-0 has been released. Erlang is a general-purpose language, offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

This release includes: SMP support on Windows, a new Inets interface, a new array module, support for bitstrings and binary comprehensions, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the slides from the Erlang Workshop 2007 talks are now available online.

jserl has been announced. It is an ActionScript (ECMAScript 4) compiler that emits Erlang code.

The 2007 Obfuscated Erlang Competition has been announced. "The goal is to write the most obfuscated Erlang program, providing a safe forum for poor coding practices and programming styles. Through this competition, we hope to illustrate some of the subtleties of Erlang and how they can best be used and abused."

Submissions are due on November 2, 2007, with the winners announced and prizes awarded on November 8, 2007 at the Erlang User Conference.

It has been announced that the programme is available for the Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop. "This workshop will bring together the open source, academic, and industrial programming communities of Erlang. It will enable participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools tailored to Erlang, novel applications, draw lessons from users' experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang and functional programming."

The workshop will be held on October 5, 2007, in Freiburg, Germany.

Erlang/OTP R11B-5 has been released. Erlang is a general-purpose language, offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

This release includes: the distribution of most platform-independent build results pre-built, the inclusion of the DocBuilder application, documentation fixes, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Erlang/OTP R11B-4 has been released. Erlang is a general-purpose language, offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

This release includes a new escript program used for writing scripts in Erlang, and other changes.

Erlang/OTP R11B-2 has been released. Erlang is a general-purpose language, offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

This release includes bug fixes.

The 2006 Obfuscated Erlang Competition has been announced. "The goal is to write the most obfuscated Erlang program, providing a safe forum for poor coding practices and programming styles. Through this competition, we hope to illustrate some of the subtleties of Erlang and how they can best be used and abused."

Submissions are due on November 3, 2006. The winners will be announced and awarded their prizes on November 9, 2006, at the Erlang User Conference.

It has been announced that presentation slides from most of the talks given at the ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop 2006 are now available online at the workshop website.

The 12th International Erlang/OTP User Conference has put out a call for papers.

The submission deadline is October 15, 2006, with the conference being held on November 9, 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Erlang/OTP R11B-1 has been released. Erlang is a general-purpose language, offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

This release includes bugfixes, improved portability, and other changes.

Joe Armstrong, one of the original creators of Erlang, has announced that he has started a blog mainly focusing on Erlang.

It has been announced that the program for the ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop 2006 is now available. The workshop will be held on September 16, 2006, in Portland, Oregon.

informit.com is running an article entitled "A Taste of Erlang, a Dynamic, Asynchronous Message-Passing Language", by David Chisnall. It introduces Erlang, a general-purpose language offering support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

The article gives some background as to Erlang's origins and language features, and also discusses topics such as the bit syntax, pattern matching, and concurrency facilities.