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The evolution of Erlang drivers and the Erlang driver toolkit

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ERLANG '02: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang

Pages 34 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1145/592849.592854

Published: 07 October 2002 Publication History

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Erlang is gaining a reputation as a good language for rapid prototyping, but one area where its reputation is weaker than those of traditional scripting languages is extensibility. Erlang is actually fairly easy to extend, but the learning curve is steep. To reduce the time necessary to create Erlang extensions, called "drivers," for existing code libraries written in C, the Erlang Driver Toolkit (EDTK) was developed. Its code generator can produce all or nearly all of the Erlang and C code required to implement both major types of Erlang drivers. Although it is still under active development, EDTK has already proven to be a time- and effort-saving tool for creating robust, full-featured driver extensions for three well-known Open Source C libraries.

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Scalas ACasu GPili PTeoh THorváth Z(2008)High-performance technical computing with erlangProceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on ERLANG10.1145/1411273.1411281(49-60)Online publication date: 27-Sep-2008
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Lenglet RChiba SFeeley MTrinder P(2006)DryverlProceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang10.1145/1159789.1159796(21-31)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1159789.1159796

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Scalas ACasu GPili PTeoh THorváth Z(2008)High-performance technical computing with erlangProceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on ERLANG10.1145/1411273.1411281(49-60)Online publication date: 27-Sep-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1411273.1411281
Lenglet RChiba SFeeley MTrinder P(2006)DryverlProceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang10.1145/1159789.1159796(21-31)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1159789.1159796

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