Language Bindings for Erlang Again

Michel Urvoy michel.urvoy@REDACTED
Tue Jun 6 23:40:18 CEST 2006


2006/6/6, Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED>:
> Den 2006-06-06 08:18:14 skrev Michel Urvoy <michel.urvoy@REDACTED>:
>
> > The company that use or have used Erlang are very discret about the
> > language. Even with an open source project like process one /
> > ejabberd:
> > http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/
> >  It feels like if people were not proud to claim they use Erlang.
>
> Some companies will refrain from mentioning Erlang because
> (a) it doesn't necessarily help them sell their product, and
> (b) because they don't want to give away to their competitors
> how they've done things. I believe Paul Graham used the same
> approach when he was using LISP for commercial gain. Why
> let the competition in on your secret?

That's seems a good explanation. Meanwhile (a) should be developed.
About code protection, the other way is to provide machine code. As
HiPE is able to do it, at least partially, what are the possibilities
to target this point?

Michel.

>
> BR,
> Ulf W
> --
> Ulf Wiger
>



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