What is Erlang and what is its role going to be ?

I borrowed the following quote from the book Programming Erlang

For years we have relied on processors getting faster and faster. That trend is ending. Instead, we now have multicore processors - 2, 4 or more processors running in parallel. The problem is, unless your program can execute in parallel, it will use only one of these cores at a time.

The Erlang programming language lets you build highly parallel, distributed, fault-tolerant systems - systems that can exploit these new architectures. It has been used commercially for many years to create massive fault tolerant and highly reliable systems.

Erlang programs run seamlessly on multicore computers with no extra code on your part. Erlang combines ideas from the world of functional programming with techniques for building fault-tolerant systems. The result is a powerful language that makes it much easier to build the massively parallel networked applications of the future.

Therefore, in the coming blogs i am going to write stuff about Erlang and programming in it, in general.

For a brief introduction to the language features, follow this article.