Strand
by Foster, Ian, Ian Foster, Stephen Taylor · first published 1990
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Although prototyped in Prolog, Erlang borrowed heavily from an obscure language called Strand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand_(programming_language) https://www.amazon.com/Strand-New-Concepts-Parallel-Programm... I have a copy of the book, and the code samples are really similar to Erlang.
on “The Art of Prolog, Second Edition” ↗Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding actually experimented with compiling Erlang to Strand. I'm not familiar with all of the details, but I believe they saw a factor of six speedup as compared to the Prolog implementation [0], but deemed the project a failure because of the complexity involved…
on “Strand Programming Language” ↗