Concurrency before Erlang

This talk covers:

concurrent languages at Ericsson before Erlang, imperative concurrent languages Modula, Chill and Ada (the last two large international efforts), start of the Computer Science Lab at Ericsson and experimentation with language paradigms, and the prototyping that led up to Erlang.

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

Concurrency

Applied research

Prototyping

OBJECTIVES

A note on history - how complicated concurrency seemed to persons used to imperative sequential programming.

TARGET AUDIENCE

For people interested in the history of their profession.