Isaac Gouy
Posts: 527
Nickname: igouy
Registered: Jul, 2003
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Posted: Oct 12, 2007 4:11 PM
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Frank Sommers wrote
> What do you think about Beust's criticisms of Erlang?
I think it's funny that you so-uncritically so-unskeptically repeat Cedric Beust's criticism and skepticism.
I think they've heard it all before:
Slide 7 Everyone in Industry ”knows” that:
– Erlang isn’t fast enough.
– Erlang isn’t OO (well, this is fortunately true!)
– It would be too hard to recruit Erlang programmers.
– If Erlang is indeed better at something, the Mainstream will catch up soon enough (always in the Next Release™.)
– If an Erlang project succeeds, it’s due to excellent project management or unusually skilled designers.
– If an Erlang project fails, it’s proof that Erlang isn’t better.
Slide 8 Objection: Erlang isn’t fast enough
• No competing product outperforms Ericsson’s ENGINE solution for Telephony over packet-based networks.
• No competing product outperforms Ericsson’s Erlang based GPRS Signalling Support Node (SGSN).
• No competing product outperforms Nortel’s Erlang-based SSL Offload Accelerator.
• Lesson learned: it’s nearly impossible to predict system performance based on low-level ”micro” benchmarks.
• Failure to manage complexity often kills performance.
etc etc
"20 Years of Commercial Functional Programming" July 2004
http://www.erlang.se/workshop/2004/ulfwiger.pdf
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