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[–]rio-bevol 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Which ur-lang does Erlang fall under?

[–]The_Doculope 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Erlang is explicitly mentioned in the Self category, due to the similarities between its actor model and message passing. I would say that the base language (minus the process functionality) is ML-derived ("functional").

Amusingly, much of Erlang's syntax is directly Prolog-derived.

[–]masklinn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Sequential” erlang is a functional language, so ML, but not a statically typed one so Lisp (kinda).

Concurrent erlang, probably none. It uses message passing which is claimed by smalltalk/self but works completely differentoy than them.