[erlang-questions] Time for OTP to be Renamed?

[Joacim Grebenö]

The gen_server takes away all the fun.

Den 16 feb 2014 09:15 skrev Vance Shipley <vances@REDACTED>:
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 07:15:54PM +0100, Joe Armstrong wrote: 
> }  OTP was designed for teams of programmers, so that they would all write 
> }  their code the same way and use common tools for code loading, error 
> }  logging, supervision and so on. 
>
> And this is the power of the environment.  At the end of the day this is 
> the stuff that put it behind important business applications.  This is 
> how it got funded in Ericsson and how it got to be behind infrastructure 
> at well known companies.  This is why we're talking about, and using, 
> Erlang today.  Otherwise it would be cool and interesting in the same 
> way that Limbo and Plan 9 were but nobody would be using it at work. 
>
> }  There is absolutely nothing stopping you from supervising and restarting 
> }  programs using spawn_link and trapping exits. 
>
> Your boss may be stopping you.  I certainly am in my organization. 
>
> }  - beginners should start with spawn and spawn_link then learn to trap 
> }  exits and then learn that they can replace a lot of simple boilerplate 
> }  code with the OTP equivalents. 
>
> It is interesting that we start teaching Erlang by introducing send and 
> receive and then as soon as we start writing applications we tell them 
> never to do that again.  It's not until you have mastered OTP that you 
> can recognize where you can handle things better yourself.  Most people 
> never get there.  Now mind you I'm not talking about scripts but actual 
> applications which should run whenever the server is running.  For that 
> you want OTP and if you are putting a 'receive' statement in your program 
> you are (probably) not writing OTP compliant code. 
>
> -- 
>
> Changing the name is not going to happen and makes no sense anyway. 
> It's a simple message to say that the problems of the telephone industry 
> are the same ones the software industry as a whole is facing now with as 
> we consume cloud services and computers incorporate more and more cores. 
>
> You could practically add another name and shift the focus to that.  I 
> don't see this as necessary but then I'm old school. 
>
> -- 
> -Vance 
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