Erlang, the mathematician?

[Michael C Williams]

Yes! His work is widely used as a basis for traffic calulations
in the Telcom area and as Ericsson is a telecom company the name
seems apropriate. That doesn't mean that erlang is a telecom
language though, it has been used in all sorts of applications.

/Mike


On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Elan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> just out of curiosity, was Erlang named for the Danish mathematician Agner
> Krarup Erlang?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Elan
> 
>