[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[IanMiller]

On Feb 21, 5:44 am, Wendell <wendel... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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".


Erlang is used in the RabbitMQ port for OpenVMS :-)
http://rabbitmqonopenvs.blogspot.com/2010/12/rabbitmq-v211-released-on-openvms.html