Re:For the Uninitiated- When You _Really_ Want to Scale
by Nick_Smith on Monday February 26, 2007 @05:42AM
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Anyone have any hands on experience with this?
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Re:For the Uninitiated- When You _Really_ Want to Scale
by jwecker on Monday February 26, 2007 @06:03AM
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I do. Erlang is a blast. It's a language/platform specifically developed to be very scalable and very fault tolerant- because it was designed for telecommunications systems. Here's a nice write up from some of the guys at Sendmail: http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/doc/euc00-sendmail.html
It's not a particularly popular language (I guess no functional language is)- and has only started gaining traction the last few years. Which means nothing of course. It's a bit of an oversimplification, but to me Erlang is to pi-calculus what Lisp is to lambda-calculus.