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color=#0000ff size=2>I was on one of the first java based projects for switches
at Ericsson (1996-97), and it was painful. The choice to move to Java were
political. Managers and BAs wanting to be in the main stream and mediocre
"programmers" wanting to enhance the skill sets. Although 1.1 was
available we were using Oak, 1.0.3. AWt was awful and there were no inner
classes. Our Erlang prototypes were embarrassingly better than the production
code, but management liked the Java label and the slightly cooler, if not fully
functional, GUIs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Of course most of the projects failed. Development was on
sun, but the production hardware was HP AUX and the JVM ports were
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color=#0000ff size=2>Thanos</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org
[mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Thomas
Lindgren<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 25, 2009 5:20 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
erlang-questions<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [erlang-questions] The Beauty of Erlang
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at the end of the 90s, Ericsson chose to go with Java+UML and banned(!) new
project starts in Erlang. Politically speaking, the mobile systems part of the
company got to decide.</DIV>
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the bright side, prior to this, Erlang was closed-source.</DIV>
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<DIV><I>But, really, one should ask, if Erlang was designed / evolved / selected
with this goal, why is it that 20 years later most developers have never even
heard of it? I guess one possibility would be to blame Ericsson and credit
MS and Sun for why C# and Java are the languages of choice for companies who
care more about how easy it is to hire an army of developers than anything else.
There could be other possible explanations, though.</I></DIV>
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