<div dir="ltr">I am a new comer to Erlang, I have worked with software only about 13 years professionally. I have never thought that the OTP name was weird, instead I learned where it came from. Infect I'll be leaning on the "telecom" part for this: <a href="https://leanpub.com/functionalerlang">https://leanpub.com/functionalerlang</a><div>
<br></div><div>There is nothing wrong with showing where you come from, that helps understand certain tradeoffs made in the language and libraries. If this is something that stops people from looking further then I think you don't want those people anyway, because they will be bombarding the user group with questions that should be a Google/DuckDuckGo away.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My 2 cents,</div><div><br></div><div>-Mark</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Tristan Sloughter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tristan.sloughter@gmail.com" target="_blank">tristan.sloughter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>*Throw hands in the air*<br></div>
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<div>I'm done!<br></div>
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