[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER]

In article <_PSdnbFni7_s7PnQnZ2dnUVZ_tednZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>On 2/22/2011 9:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Ericsson and some other in the telecom business still uses Erlang.

Could be, but I doubt (if you still meant the language).

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

Of course. We're talking about the language the "opsys" of their
telecom switch hardware was written in. VMS is no language and
also doesn't run on (proprietary) telecom hardware.

>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.

Erlang Distribution (statistics) has nothing to do with the Erlang language
(except that they're used in telecomms and have an entity which runs on VMS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_distribution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29

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