Richard Clark wrote:
On Mon, 11 May 2009 18:41:31 -0500, Tom Ring
wrote:

ERLANG is a very interesting language and has been released as open
source. See

http://erlang.org/


Hi Tom,

Tell me more (a quick synopsis). My group has been working on the
Netflix Prize in Python.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Quickly then.

ERLANG is a language made for highly reliable systems control.

It will run the same cooperative code on very different systems.

It will allow fully transparent failover between systems.

Programming to handle failover with no loss of control state or data
stream is central to the language design.

The systems using this for cell handling are claimed to be able to
handle the primary having catastrophic failure, switching to the
secondary, and not dropping a single byte of the stream.

The language was originally designed for telecom, but has had more
generic capabilities added.

I am not an expert nor even a newbie on this. I saw a a one hour talk
on it last late summer. I was expecting a presentation on statistics
and got something completely different.

I am getting back into programming just to tune my mind up, and this is
one of the languages I will be including.

tom
K0TAR