[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/22/2011 9:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

There is something called the  "Erlang-B Distribution" that relates: 
number of servers, arrival rate of requests, and time required to 
service a request.  There is a VMS version of a program written in 
Fortran that does an Erlang-B calculation.  I think I may still have a 
copy somewhere.