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A normal Erlang application is built out of hundreds of small Erlang processes.

It was originally [[proprietary software]] within [[Ericsson]], developed by [[Joe Armstrong (programmer)|Joe Armstrong]], Robert Virding, and Mike Williams in 1986,<ref name="hopl">{{cite conference |last=Armstrong |first=Joe |title=History of Erlang |work=HOPL III: Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages |date=2007 |isbn=978-1-59593-766-7}}</ref> but was released as [[free and open-source software]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cio.com/article/3020454/open-source-tools/how-tech-giants-spread-open-source-programming-love.html |title=How tech giants spread open source programming love - CIO.com|date=8 January 2016|access-date=5 September 2016|archive-date=22 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222070551/https://www.cio.com/article/3020454/open-source-tools/how-tech-giants-spread-open-source-programming-love.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.erlang.se/onlinenews/ErlangOTPos.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991009002753/http://www.erlang.se/onlinenews/ErlangOTPos.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 October 1999 |title=Erlang/OTP Released as Open Source, 1998-12-08}}</ref> Erlang/OTP is supported and maintained by the Open Telecom Platform (OTP) product unit at [[Ericsson]].

==History==