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Erlang/OTP
==========
**Erlang** is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft
real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its
uses are in telecom, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and
instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for
concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.
**OTP** is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing
middle-ware to develop these systems. It includes its own distributed
database, applications to interface towards other languages, debugging
and release handling tools.
ERTS and BEAM
-------------
**BEAM** is the name of the virtual machine where all Erlang code is executed.
Every compiled Erlang file has the suffix .beam. The virtual machine
is sometimes referred to as the emulator.
**ERTS** is the Erlang Runtime System where the BEAM, kernel and
standard libraries amongst others are included.
More information can be found at [erlang.org] [1].
Building and Installing
-----------------------
Information on building and installing Erlang/OTP can be found
in the [$ERL_TOP/HOWTO/INSTALL.md] [5] document.
Contributing to Erlang/OTP
--------------------------
Here are the [instructions for submitting patches] [2].
In short:
* Submit your patch by opening a new Pull Request.
* Go to the JIRA issue tracker at [bugs.erlang.org] [7] to
see reported issues which you can contribute to.
Search for issues with the status *Contribution Needed*.
Bug Reports
--------------------------
Please look at the [instructions for submitting bugs reports] [6].
Copyright and License
---------------------
> %CopyrightBegin%
>
> Copyright Ericsson AB 2010-2014. All Rights Reserved.
>
> Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
> you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
> You may obtain a copy of the License at
>
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
>
> Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
> distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
> WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
> See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
> limitations under the License.
>
> %CopyrightEnd%
[1]: http://www.erlang.org
[2]: http://wiki.github.com/erlang/otp/contribution-guidelines
[3]: http://www.erlang.org/static/doc/mailinglist.html
[4]: http://erlang.github.com/otp/
[5]: HOWTO/INSTALL.md
[6]: https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Bug-reports
[7]: http://bugs.erlang.org
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