A Joeish Erlang distribution (long)

[Francesco Cesarini]

> What I meant was that new small and/middle sized software projects is
> IMO advised to avoid gen_servers, supervisors, application controllers,
> appup, relup, boot scripts, gen_fsm, release_handler and the stuff
> described in the "OTP Design Principles".


I totally disagree. It is the above that adds even more to the 
productive factor of the programmers using Erlang, allowing small to 
medium size projects to be successful. I might agree to bypassing the 
above design principles when putting together the evaluation prototype, 
but absolutely not when building the product itself.

The design principles give you what lacks in basic Erlang, namely a way 
to design the system, a way to organize and reuse parts of the source 
code, and a way to reason when putting it together. I have seen people 
reinvent the wheel so many times when not using OTP correctly, and I 
will stop here as I could go on for ages...

The above will eventually deter potential users, as they will not 
experience the factor 4 - 10 of the productivity increase we who know 
OTP usually ramble about, and get stuck in trying to solve problems the 
OTP developers have taken hundreds of hours to think of, test and develop.

Back to work.. Have a nice day :-)

Francesco
--
http://www.erlang-consulting.com