Ghassan

anybody has the instant.js file? the link for it does not seem to be working anymore:

http://feross.net/instant/instant.js

??

thnx

Yes Erlang is: 1. so much faster to execute 2. much faster to code with 3. much faster and easier to maintain your code definitly 4. much smaller size of effective code compared with Java 5. MOST IMPORTANTLY: Erlang has the ability to adjust your running code and patch your system while it is up and running! and maintain versioning for your patches dynamically, this means that you're guaranteed 99.99% of systems availability. Erlang is a pioneer in Soft Real Time computing. Virtually systems written in Erlang never go down. it has been designed for the telecom sector at the beginning and was tested rigorously for that at Ericsson Labs.

hope this helps..

But maybe there is more to do. you see, it can not always be a single effort.

I suggest that, we technologists and computer scientists might have the responsibility to lead and share in our local societies. If we create a star fish model technology interest groups that work to share knowledge in local communities. host meetings for training locally. use public schools and at the same time educate youth on the new emerging programming languages and systems. invite local corporate IT managers, and IT staff, business decision makers to local meetings to raise awareness on Erlang and other technologies as well. Show casing each. then we can get funded by these very companies that benefit from such services.

botom line is, economic drivers, can be created using new technologies, when understanding propagates on the value put with each of these new technologies. however, untilnow, the history of that course has been tightly coupled with corporate america as opposed to grass roots efforts whcih work on creating these technologies.

Venture capitalests, would find it easier to fund emerging technology companies when public awareness is already there about them.

Exactly. well said. this is the issue I am trying to raise. Companies are not hiring Erlang programmers, because they simply do not know what they are missing. what you don't know, hurts you more. existing problems are there that need to be resolved but there is lack of awareness on what's new and what is out there that can address the problem directly and efficiently and most economically. We have idle multi core processors that are underutilized since around a decade now, and we scale our load balancing by buying more servers. We need strong matrix arithmatic computers, so we buy higher colck cycles with multi cores setting idle, all underutilized with multi threading which was designed for single core CPUs back in the 70s and 80s.

All that is supposed to change, when Microsoft launches .NET 4 and C# 4.0 with it which is the first concurrent programming language from Microsoft and along with that Microsoft is supposed to raise awareness on multi core, and concerrency. And this is the problem!

The industry, economy, development and evolution of systems can not be held back pending a single company like Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Computer science and it's applications need to be utilized properly and timely.

As far as I know, Clojure is a scripted multithreaded langauge that targets JVM. it is not a concurrent language. almost all current programming languages are like that. The upcoming C# 4.0 will be concurrent C#. which is yet to come.