Neeum Zawan wrote:
>     And as an FYI, the only place I encounter people talking about 
> Erlang is on this newsgroup (namely, Darren). Haskell I see elsewhere.

It's mostly big in database settings. It's basically best for implementing 
distributed high-load database type stuff, not so good for normal-sized 
programming. If you want literally 100% uptime for 30 years, use Erlang.

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    back to version 1.0."
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Darren New wrote:

> If you want literally 100% uptime for 30 years, use Erlang.

When the hell was Erlang invented? Has it had *time* to run for 30 years?

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Invisible schrieb:

>> If you want literally 100% uptime for 30 years, use Erlang.
> 
> When the hell was Erlang invented? Has it had *time* to run for 30 years?

something like 22 years so far.

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Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> If you want literally 100% uptime for 30 years, use Erlang.
> 
> When the hell was Erlang invented? Has it had *time* to run for 30 years?

http://www.erlang.org/course/history.html

Probably not, but certainly 10 or 15 years.

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