Invisible wrote:
> Well, that's true enough. But Erlang is hardly the only system to allow 
> you to dynamically load code. Even C lets you do that, if you're 
> masochistic enough...

No, technically, it isn't C doing the dyanmic loading. :-)

In any case, the benefit that Erlang gives you in terms of dynamically 
loading the code is (A) it's automatic, and (B) it lets the old code finish 
up while the new code is running. It's like letting currently-running web 
pages finish on the server while you're serving the new web pages to someone 
else. Yeah, we pretty much can solve that now, but it was a necessary 
component to the whole reliability enchalada.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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