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 | | Erlang is good at solving these sorts of problems because this is the problem domain it was originally designed for. |
 | | Applications written in Erlang are often composed of hundreds or thousands of lightweight processes.Context switching between Erlang processes is typically one or two orders of magnitude cheaper than switching between threads in a C program. |
 | | People use Erlang for all sorts of surprising things, for instance to communicate with X11 at the protocol level, but, there are some common situations where Erlang is not likely to be the language of choice. |
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