(Prolog + LISP + Erlang) with integration issues versus C++

[Marc van Woerkom]

> It was also pointed out that Google does lot of work
> related to information retrieval, inference, distributed
> computing over thousands of compute nodes but does not 
> use Erlang! Why?

Google hired Rob Pike

   http://labs.google.com/people/r/

of Plan 9 (distributed Unix successor).
Maybe they roll their own distributed OS.

On the other hand, Microsoft has Tony Hoare on its
payroll, don't know if they make use of his ideas. :)

Regards,
Marc