Lambda the Ultimate

I just stumbled across the February 28 development-blog posting from the commercial online game Vendetta Online:

The new erlang based system is now in production. For those who haven't been following, we ran into problems with our existing Lisp-based system (named "Deliverator") which handles high-level AI behaviour.. large groups of NPCs, large battles and the like. Over the last couple of months, we've been in the process of migrating to a much more scalable architecture (named "Kourier") based on Erlang, an elegant distributed-programming platform. ...

I do enjoy starting the day with a nice cup of coffee and an interesting read like this. :-)