[erlang-questions] Erlang first appeared year

[greim]

Am 20.06.2018 um 12:41 schrieb Daron Ryan:
> Dinosaurs are extinct? Pascal / Delphi is still alive.

Delphi is for hipsters....I still use Borland Pascal 7.01 nearly daily 
for a now 24 years running embedded project. A real world application 
24/7/365...and even ERLANG (since 2 years).


  Maybe it requires
> something like a rock from outer space to hit the gulf of Mexico to draw 
> the line (sorry I don't know whether the right word is asteroid or 
> something else so I played it safe and said rock)

Who ceres about dying? Have you ever heard about reincarnation?
MISRA-C ......Pascal with curly brackets, how awful ;-)

but now we are running out of topic here..


Markus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C


> 
> On 20 Jun 2018 8:35 PM, "greim" <greim@REDACTED 
> <mailto:greim@REDACTED>> wrote:
> 
>     Am 20.06.2018 um 11:42 schrieb Thomas Elsgaard:
> 
>         Younger might not always be better...
> 
> 
>     ...I absolute agree.
> 
>     Or lets say "surviving of the fittest" if we define the development
>     of programming languages as an evolutionary process.
> 
>     worms and jellyfishes, sharks and crocodiles are still
>     alive...dinosaurs aren't!
> 
>     Markus Greim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>         Thomas
>         ons. 20. jun. 2018 kl. 11.34 skrev Dmitry Klionsky
>         <dm.klionsky@REDACTED <mailto:dm.klionsky@REDACTED>
>         <mailto:dm.klionsky@REDACTED <mailto:dm.klionsky@REDACTED>>>:
> 
>              Hi all,
> 
>              Wikipedia
>         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
>         <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)>
>              states that Erlang
>              first appeared in 1986, which makes it "old" comparing to
>         Java (1995)
>              and C# (2000).
>              The other day a manager said that some C++ devs mentioned that
>              Erlang is
>              "an old language".
>              I replied that C++, which first appeared in 1985, is even
>         older.
> 
>              Today I was reading
>         http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/
>         <http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/> and
>              realized that the year
>              1986 is misleading.
> 
>              It seems to me, that both Java and C++ have their first
>         public releases
>              as first appeared years
>              and NOT when their design was started. They both have
>         history sections
>              mentioning that work on
>              them was started long before.
> 
>              Shouldn't we consider OTP R1B in 1996 to be the first release?
>              This will make Erlang is younger than Java!
> 
>              I don't propose to cheat, I propose to play the fair game.
> 
>              Thank you
> 
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