Unlike traditional languages, Erlang al¬lows the user to be in control of how the code should be loaded - at boot or run time i.e. when an application or hard¬ware starts or only when a piece of code is needed.

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This makes it trivial to replace buggy portion of code with new code and gives it the ability for hot code re¬placement.