Great thread, highly informative for anyone considering switching to Erlang, it even inspired me to summarize this thread in an extended blog post:<br><a href="http://www.rsaccon.com/2007/10/why-erlang.html">http://www.rsaccon.com/2007/10/why-erlang.html
</a> <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Vanier</b> <<a href="mailto:mvanier@cs.caltech.edu">mvanier@cs.caltech.edu</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;">
Learn both.<br><br>Mike<br><br>Lone Wolf wrote:<br>> Hi.<br>> Recently, I have been trying to learn a language other than Java.<br>> Erlang seems to be ready for the prime time (used in the commercial world).<br>
> On the other side, OCaml seems to be a cool and capable language.<br>> I want to learn something useful and fun.<br>> Tell what do you think ?<br>> (if you are Erlang die-hard, please put this aside ;))<br>>
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