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		tonyarkles on May 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir? You're not wrong! I actually tried doing a bunch of research to figure out how the original Ericsson phone switches worked with Erlang, but couldn't find a whole lot of info.

imhoguy on May 23, 2020 | [–]

At least we have this "Erlang: The Movie" demo to reverse engineer some bits: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BXmOlCy0oBM

tonyarkles on May 24, 2020 | | [–]

That's awesome! Thanks!

dnautics on May 23, 2020 | [–]

IIRC a good way to put is that the phone switches didn't work with erlang, but the phone switch controllers did.

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