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Meaning of Erlang | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈɜːrlæŋ

Definitions

  1. A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
  2. A functional programming language designed for highly concurrent and fault-tolerant applications.

Equivalents

العربية إرلانج

Examples

“One erlang (1 Erl) is defined as the amount of traffic generated by the user when he or she uses one traffic channel for one hour (this one hour is usually the busy hour of the network).”
“If you need to wring out every drop of performance on a complex task, or want to avoid rewriting a library written in a language other than Erlang, you'll want to explore Erlang's tools for connecting with other programming languages.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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