[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 23-02-2011 03:13, Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER wrote:
> In article<_PSdnbFni7_s7PnQnZ2dnUVZ_tednZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>> 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

And they are named after the same person!!

Arne