Lisp Flavored Erlang These are your father’s parentheses Elegant weapons, for a more …civilized age1.
From the homepage:
Origins
LFE has many origins, depending upon whether you’re looking at Lisp (and here), Erlang, or LFE-proper. The LFE community of contributors embraces all of these and more.
From the original release message:
I have finally released LFE, Lisp Flavoured Erlang, which is a lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler. Code produced with it is compatible with “normal” Erlang code. The is an LFE-mode for Emacs and the lfe-mode.el file is include in the distribution… (Robert Virding)
I haven’t looked up the numbers but I am sure that LFE is in the terminology of academia, one of the less often taught languages. However, it sounds deeply interesting as we all march towards scalable concurrent processing.