Well, to add this to the mix:<br><br>Erlang is actually not suited very well for anything, but, well, telecom applications :)<br><br>Despite Yaws, it cannot be used as a web-development tool right out of the box (Unicode, indexed search anyone)
<br>Despite C- and Java- bindings, Erlang cannot be used for desktop applications, because, well, you'll have to implement _a lot_ of stuff from ground up in Java or C/C++ just to make things communicate with Erlang<br><br>
As a control box? Yes, definitely. As a ready-togo solution? Probably, not. <br><br>And there are both advantages and disadvantages to that, as there always are, but I think, that if Erlang community could focus on the disadvantages... Man, this could be the next killer-language :) (Ruby is slowly filling the void, and C#
3.0 is around the corner, and there is that curious little fellow by the name of Nemerle...)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Lindgren</b> <<a href="mailto:thomasl_erlang@yahoo.com">
thomasl_erlang@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>--- Andrés Valenciano <<a href="mailto:andres-lists@brainplugins.com">
andres-lists@brainplugins.com</a>><br>wrote:<br><br>> ke han wrote:<br>> > This does add to the erlang sales pitch problem.<br>><br>> Yes it is a problem, some times when others have<br>> used only one tool for
<br>> everything for years and before that another tool<br>> for everything...they<br>> are difficult people to talk to or persuade to<br>> change from their comfort<br>> zone about development.<br>><br>
> Most of the things I heard were the same that were<br>> thrown to the Rails<br>> guys: pool of people to work with the "technology",<br>> "enterprise<br>> standard" for web apps, blah blah blah (well, not
<br>> one thing about<br>> scalability in this case :) )<br><br>Most developers and managers play "follow the leader"<br>and get upset if there are several ones :-) But those<br>guys are basically the prize of the winner, and there
<br>is little point in trying to convince them at this<br>stage.<br><br>Instead, I think what is needed is a community of<br>technical pioneers, who overcome real problems and<br>codify them into software solutions. This is
<br>attractive to people who are having problems and are<br>willing to try something new. In this specific case,<br>an "OTP for web developers", perhaps?<br><br>Basically, these pioneers will be the core of the<br>
snowball at the top of the hill, and the followers<br>will be the big outer layer at the bottom.<br><br>Best,<br>Thomas<br><br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
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