General
Riak uses erlang as a base language. Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability.
OTP is a set of libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop erlang based systems.
Kerl
Kerl is a shell agnostic tool that makes it easy to install and build instances of Erlang and Otp.
Getting Started
erl
For help
help().
to quit
quit().
To get to the ‘task manager’ of erlang
^G
h