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The Web 2.0 will have a large impact on development technology choice. Erlang is the most likely language and development environment to benefit from this trend.

We don't have shared memory. I have my memory, you have yours, we have two brains, one each, they are not joined together. To change your memory I send you a message, I talk or wave my arms.

Learn how to write truly concurrent programs—programs that run on dozens or even hundreds of local and remote processors. See how to write high reliability applications—even in the face of network and hardware failure—using the Erlang programming la

commentary on ralph johnson's post, in LtU

Back from India, and catching up on my email I found a blog post being circulated for comment. The post was by Graeme Burnett and can be found here. Burnett criticizes the current use of C++ within the software written and used by high finance companies

Erlang is an excellent language for implementing distributed systems. One of the reasons for this is the semantics of its message-passing primitives. (Other reasons include the way it isolates processes and its distributed failure handling.) Erlang's s