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inactiveTopic Selling a language
started 4/13/2003; 9:00:18 AM - last post 4/14/2003; 10:42:54 AM
Ehud Lamm - Selling a language  blueArrow
4/13/2003; 9:00:18 AM (reads: 1525, responses: 2)
Selling a language
In this erlang-questions message Joe Armstrong talks about selling erlang to "suits", venture capitalists and various kinds of programmers.

Most of his comments are directly applicable to language advocacy in general.


Posted to general by Ehud Lamm on 4/13/03; 9:00:46 AM

Luke Gorrie - Re: Selling a language  blueArrow
4/14/2003; 10:23:26 AM (reads: 491, responses: 1)
Vanity dictates that I link to the follow-up containing a translation of some articles in the swedish press that Joe referred to at the end of his mail:

http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200304/msg00043.html

Erlang is going strong here! Though the bit about "they fired a bunch of non-essential people a couple of years back" is being comically nonchalant about a real tragedy IMHO :-)

(Sorry for editing this comment from under your feet, Ehud :-))

Ehud Lamm - Re: Selling a language  blueArrow
4/14/2003; 10:42:54 AM (reads: 532, responses: 0)
Suits know Lisp is some kind of wierd programming language, however they have know idea what erlang is. So there's no chance they'll suggest rewriting in C++