Frank Brickle wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 23:37 -0400, Robert McGwier wrote: >> The history of Erlang reveals its parentage tree contains Prolog. They >> wanted to use Prolog but could not and give reasons. > > Not sure whether Bob or Eric remembers this, but a couple of years ago > when we were first talking about the 'new' (gleam-in-the-eye) console, I > floated the idea of Prolog but dropped it for lack of concurrency and > networking support :-? > > 73 > Frank > AB2KT > > > I'm sure the backtracking could have caused a lot of problems in a real time environment, so Erlang has the rules but no backtracking, plus all the added concurrency a beautiful combination.
I can see some usefulness for Erlang at work where we have some distributed systems that are incredibly old and need replacing and could benefit from fault tolerance, distributed processing, and rule matching. Might be a good way to become proficient at it on their bill, while solving a real need at work. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com "Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger!" Don Seglio Batuna _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
