General questions about the power of Erlang

[Bjarne Däcker]

Hello

Karel Van Oudheusden wrote:
> 
> Ada and the functional paradigm were the main sources of inspiration for
> developing Erlang.  (I got this from Bjarne Dackers thesis on Erlang).  I am
> not saying that Erlang was developed with Ada.

What we have said before is that Erlang
combines two traditions:

-	Languages like Modula, Chill and Ada
	which have modules (packages) and
	processes (tasks). The sequential
	paradigm for these languages, however,
	is more like Pascal or PL/I.

-	Untyped functional languages.

Best regards

Bjarne