[erlang-questions] Erlang first appeared year

[Hugo Mills]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:35:18PM +0200, greim wrote:
> Am 20.06.2018 um 11:42 schrieb Thomas Elsgaard:
> >Younger might not always be better...
> 
> ...I absolute agree.
> 
> Or lets say "surviving of the fittest" if we define the development
> of programming languages as an evolutionary process.
> 
> worms and jellyfishes, sharks and crocodiles are still
> alive...dinosaurs aren't!

   Well, we call them "birds" nowadays.

   Hugo.

> Markus Greim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >Thomas
> >ons. 20. jun. 2018 kl. 11.34 skrev Dmitry Klionsky
> ><dm.klionsky@REDACTED <mailto:dm.klionsky@REDACTED>>:
> >
> >    Hi all,
> >
> >    Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
> >    states that Erlang
> >    first appeared in 1986, which makes it "old" comparing to Java (1995)
> >    and C# (2000).
> >    The other day a manager said that some C++ devs mentioned that
> >    Erlang is
> >    "an old language".
> >    I replied that C++, which first appeared in 1985, is even older.
> >
> >    Today I was reading http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/ and
> >    realized that the year
> >    1986 is misleading.
> >
> >    It seems to me, that both Java and C++ have their first public releases
> >    as first appeared years
> >    and NOT when their design was started. They both have history sections
> >    mentioning that work on
> >    them was started long before.
> >
> >    Shouldn't we consider OTP R1B in 1996 to be the first release?
> >    This will make Erlang is younger than Java!
> >
> >    I don't propose to cheat, I propose to play the fair game.
> >
> >    Thank you
> >
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