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<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2000</year><year>2015</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
under the License.
</legalnotice>
<title>Introduction</title>
<prepared>Gunilla Hugosson</prepared>
<docno></docno>
<date></date>
<rev></rev>
<file>introduction.xml</file>
</header>
<marker id="interoperability tutorial"></marker>
<p>This section informs on interoperability, that is, information
exchange, between Erlang and other programming languages. The
included examples mainly treat interoperability between Erlang and
C.</p>
<section>
<title>Purpose</title>
<p>The purpose of this tutorial is to describe different
interoperability mechanisms that can be used when integrating a
program written in Erlang with a program written in another
programming language, from the Erlang programmer's
perspective.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Prerequisites</title>
<p>It is assumed that you are a skilled Erlang programmer,
familiar with concepts such as Erlang data types, processes,
messages, and error handling.</p>
<p>To illustrate the interoperability principles, C programs
running in a UNIX environment have been used. It is assumed that
you have enough knowledge to apply these principles to the
relevant programming languages and platforms.</p>
<note>
<p>For readability, the example code is kept as simple as
possible. For example, it does not include error handling,
which might be vital in a real-life system.</p>
</note>
</section>
</chapter>
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