[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 21-02-2011 07:36, Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER wrote:
> In article<fef26be7-709f-49d2-ad10-3091d20dec4d at y30g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Wendell<wendellxe at yahoo.com>  writes:
>> 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.
>
> As you might know, I've been in the telecom industry for some decades
> and I never heard of Erlang so far ;-)
>
> I think, the languages used had been (=decades ago) company/group specific
> (PROTEL =>  Bell/Northern Telecom, CHILL =>  ITT/Alcatel, Erlang =>  Ericsson)
>
> Don't know what the current situation is (but I doubt that the are not
> using mainstream languages c,java,c++,c#,delphi,visual *,perl,php now)

Ericsson and some other in the telecom business still uses Erlang.

Just for very different stuff than what VMS is used for.

Arne