[erlang-questions] Time for OTP to be Renamed?

[Ivan Uemlianin]

On 13/02/2014 09:51, Garrett Smith wrote:
> ...
> What sucks IMO is that OTP is treated as "advanced" by the community
> and by book authors. I understand the history of this, but there's a
> cost: programmers delay learning core Erlang principles of
> *applications* -- i.e. supervisor trees -- because it's not taught up.

This I very much agree with.  I think an Introduction to Erlang book 
that started with releases and applications would be a very good idea.

> It's also incredibly complicated, if you don't use e2.

http://e2project.org/


>
> The irony is that *advanced* Erlang programmers can get away
> programming outside the OTP guard rails. Beginners should not even
> consider doing this until they understand why OTP works and why they
> should deviate.
>
> e2 helps, a lot.
>
> The whole point of e2 is to simplify the correct use of OTP -- letting
> programmers *start* with applications, supervisors and gen_servers (in
> e2 they're called services and tasks -- simple huh). I know it's
> controversial, but it's controversial to those who have been teaching
> Erlang while this stuff was being baked. I don't run into new learners
> who object to starting with OTP using e2 (though maybe they're just
> being polite -- if you're out there and had problems learning with e2,
> please drop me a line, or yell at me here).
>
> I agree wholeheartedly with Pieter. It's just Erlang. Keeping the term
> OTP is a historic vestige. We're used to it, but it's a dead weight
> that adds only confusion.
>
> The Ruby / Rails comparison is not accurate. It's more like Rails 1.0
> / Rails 2.0.
>
> Sadly though, I just don't see "OTP" going away because there's a
> trickle of noise from this list :|
>
> I make videos to cope.
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Ivan Uemlianin <ivan@REDACTED> wrote:
>> On 13/02/2014 08:13, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
>>>
>>> ... (a) stop using OTP as a
>>> confusing and needless synonym for Erlang, ...
>>
>>
>> Is that what OTP is used as?  I thought OTP was a set (or framework, or
>> platform) of libraries (behaviours, supervision, etc.) that facilitate the
>> development of highly scalable and reliable applications (telecoms-grade
>> scalability and reliability you might say).  AFAIK it's open-source.
>>
>> Yes, let's rename it to something that more closely reflects what it really
>> is.  How about the "Open-source Telecoms-grade reliability and scalability
>> Platform"?
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>>
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