[erlang-questions] Why is Erlang what it is?

[Kirill Zaborski]

I have thought about release handling and so on but then I saw this project.
So it was just an academic research without much results and almost no
influence on Erlang/OTP?
>From the paper:
----
The production version of our type checker is currently
under construction, and will be distributed along with a
future version of the Erlang system. We expect the final
version to improve on the prototype in areas of performance,
robustness and the quality of diagnostics.
----
But now I see no signs of something like:
-type and(bool(),bool()) -> bool().
Quite strange to me :(

Regards,
Kirill


On 12/13/06, Christian S <chsu79@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> On 12/13/06, Kirill Zaborski <qrilka@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Yeah, I know about the dialyzer. But are there any reasons why static
> typing
> > is dead?
> > Are there any papers why it was declined? Or maybe should I send an
> email to
> > Philip Wadler?
>
> In systems where you load code into running systems it might be overly
> complex
> to perform a complete static type check for the system with the new
> code inserted. Not that it is impossible though.
>
> It would motivate me to pick dynamic typing. :)
>
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