[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[Wendell]

Recent discussion here has pointed out the strength of OpenVMS in the
telecom industry. This brought to mind the Erlang language, which was
designed for telecom servers and is considered by many to be the best
language for that job.

I googled around for discussion of Erlang on VMS and was surprised to
find not a single reference. There is a recent port of Erlang to
OpenVMS IA-64, but I couldn't find any discussion of its being used.

https://sites.google.com/a/johndapps.com/www/erlangonopenvms

So we have two products that are especially strong in the telecom
industry yet have practically no overlap in use. Are two distinct
development cultures? My impression of the design philosophies is that
VMS emphasizes "fault resistance" while Erlang's focus is "fault
tolerance" or better, "fault recovery".