Hey,<br><br>I keep reading these emails about OTP naming but can't stop asking who named it OTP in the first place? I guess s/he needs to give us an explanation for the name....<br><br>Ahmed Al-Issaei<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Francesco Cesarini</b> <<a href="mailto:francesco@erlang-consulting.com">francesco@erlang-consulting.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;">
Hi,<br><br>I agree, but think it is just as confusing as having Telecom in there...<br>What is in bold and we have not changed, however, is OTP. We will change<br>it back when this debate comes to an end. As mentioned, I want to
<br>summarize all the comments as soon as I have a second over.<br><br>Francesco<br><br>PS. The Dr. Dobbs article is generating about 200 unique users a day,<br>bringing the average number of unique users to the site to about 500.
<br>Thanks to the reddit effect on all the new articles, tutorials, how tos,<br>we've had a constant influx of 400 - 500 users a day, 50% of which are<br>returning ones.<br><br>Niclas Eklund wrote:<br>> Hello!<br>>
<br>> Since, for example, the article in Dr.Dobbs, posted by Tobbe, refers to<br>> <a href="http://www.erlang.org">www.erlang.org</a> and <a href="http://www.trapexit.org">www.trapexit.org</a>, it might attract new people
<br>> (<a href="http://ddj.com/dept/opensource/201001928?cid=RSSfeed_DDJ_OpenSource">http://ddj.com/dept/opensource/201001928?cid=RSSfeed_DDJ_OpenSource</a>) and<br>> they might not read that thread. But they will for sure read what's on the
<br>> start page:<br>><br>> "What is Erlang and OTP?<br>><br>> Erlang is a programming language and a runtime system with strong<br>> built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.
<br>> Originally developed at Ericsson, Erlang was released as open source in<br>> 1998.<br>><br>> The Open Transaction Platform (OTP) is set of Erlang libraries and design<br>> principles providing middle-ware to develop distributed, fault tolerant,
<br>> massively concurrent soft real-time systems."<br>><br>> IMHO, that might be confusing.<br>><br>> /Niclas<br>><br>><br>><br>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Francesco Cesarini wrote:<br>><br>
><br>>> Eric Merritt wrote:<br>>><br>>>> Regardless of what is decided on the name, Trap Exit shouldn't go off<br>>>> in it's own tangent.<br>>>><br>>> *We haven't*. It clearly states in the first forum post that we did it
<br>>> to provoke a reaction and see what the Erlang community thinks, and that<br>>> any ultimate decision is not ours, not the community, but Ericsson's.<br>>> This reaction has now occurred. I will put together the feedback later
<br>>> today.<br>>><br>>> Cheers,<br>>> Francesco<br>>><br>>> PS. Love some of the suggestions :-)<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> erlang-questions mailing list
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