[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Wendell wrote 2011-02-21 06:44:
> 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".

Now, if I'm not wrong, Erlang is used in highly specialized
systems (think phone exchange control) while the major
use of VMS is in tasks such as billing and similar.