This repository contains a draft for an Erlang language specification.
The draft is in its current state quite old and outdated, but it contains lots of valuable information. The initial commit contains its state as of February 1999. We publish the source for the draft in the hope that we in collaboration with the Erlang community eventually will be able to produce an official Erlang Language Specification.
The original draft from 1999 is available in the download area at erlang.org.
The draft is written using LaTeX. In order to build the document you
need to have LaTeX tools installed on your system. If you type make in
the top level directory, the document will be produced as a Postscript
document.
Contributions are very welcome, and will be handled more or less the same way as contributions to the Erlang/OTP repository are handled.
The Erlang Language Specification is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
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