“The eight queens puzzle is the problem of putting eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard such that none of them is able to capture any other using the standard chess queen’s moves. The queens must be placed in such a way that no two queens would be able to attack each other. Thus, a solution requires that no two queens share the same row, column, or diagonal. The eight queens puzzle is an example of the more general n queens puzzle of placing n queens on an n×n chessboard, where solutions exist only for n = 1 or n ≥ 4… ” [Wikipedia]
Below my solution using ERLANG (very strong for concurrent programming, used by Ericsson, Facebook, Amazon,Google,..) with List comprehensions and suggestions from other sites