[Info-vax] VMS and Erlang cultures

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 22-02-2011 21:31, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

Named after the same person.

Arne