<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Why, Miles, the solutions are similar -- we just launch another one.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Best,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thomas</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica
Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:11 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container">Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Miles Fidelman <br clear="none">> <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net"
href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a> <mailto:<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net" href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Nice piece.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> What's frightening about it is how closely those requirements<br clear="none">> also scream "Ada" - which seems to have become the language of<br clear="none">> choice for aviation software - both hard real-time fly-by-wire<br clear="none">> software and massively distributed systems for air traffic<br clear="none">> control. (Dare I say it, another language that "flys under the<br clear="none">> radar." :-)<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Talk about divergent solutions to similar
requirements.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I'll claim that they cover different areas. The key difference is hard <br clear="none">> vs soft real time. Where Ada can work with the former, Erlang relaxes <br clear="none">> the requirement to soft realtime and gains a lot of benefits by doing so.<br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Good point. "Let it crash" does take on a whole different meaning when <br clear="none">dealing with aircraft and such.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Miles<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.<br clear="none">In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra<div class="yqt4521530511" id="yqtfd11485"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">erlang-questions mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect"
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