🚀 go-pugleaf

>>>>> "Johan" == Johan Garpendahl <joga@ppvlu.ericsson.se> writes:

> I used to have a similar attitude once.  I was quite happy with C,
> and I found C++ as a small step into something new.  As long as I
> didn't have to maintain other peoples software, it was quite OK.

[...]

> Still, when people from Ellemtel started talking about their new
> language Erlang, and how much better it was than traditional
> languages like C and C++, I was quite a sceptic. "What's the use of
> introducing yet another programming language", I thought. "It'll
> never compete with C/C++ in number of users anyway."

[...]

> Now, I've used Erlang for about a year. I've seen it's pros and
> cons. The claims where basically true. Maybe I haven't increased by
> productivity by 10 times, but then, maybe I was not that bad as a
> C/C++ programmer either.

> Now, I think I've said enough. If anyone wants to know more, take a
> look at the Erlang web, http://www-cslab.ericsson.se:5000

Unfortunately:

: Academic Erlang

: Erlang is not in the public domain but an unsupported implementation
: is available free of charge for non-commercial research and
: educational organizations.

: To get the free version of Erlang an official representative of the
: University (the Professor or Head of Department where the system is
: to be used) must sign our standard contract - and return the signed
: contract by post to us.  To obtain a copy of Erlang do the
: following:

Which is hardly acceptable for GUILE, which has to be usable in free
and commercial programs, and must have source code available.  In
addition, erlang appears to be a nonstandard Prolog type language,
which is going to be just slightly more attractive than Intercal (it's
not that I don't like Prolog, but something procedural will be better
for most users, and even I don't want to use a nonstandard Prolog).

-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool