Erlang (Was Re: Answering an Ada/COBOL Question)

["Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>]

Brian Rogoff wrote in message ...

>> Erlang?   Clearly someone _expressiveness_ for ideas that could not
>> be conveniently expressed in the languages they already knew.
>
>See www.erlang.org. If you can find the paper on the development of the
>language, it makes for interesting reading.
>
>-- Brian


Extremely  interesting.
And the name itself reflects the fact that it was created as
software platform for real-time telecom applications.
Erlang is a unit to measure phone traffic.

Taking into account the whole set of tools and libraries for
telecom apps as well as gigabit telecom equipment (scalable
ATM switches) where Erlang was used successfully as software
platform I may take an assumption that it could be a serious
competitor to Ada in this domain.
Erlang (the same as Ada) was created  as real language
for real-time application and real things.

Among examples there is even small OS written in Erlang.
Probably it even may be useful for N.R. Ada OS project :)

Regards,
Vladimir