]> --- Dave Berry <daveb@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > At 00:13 15/07/2002, Markus Mottl wrote: > >Erlang is very niche-specific (though, > fault-tolerant distributed > >computation is surely a worthy niche). I think that > Erlang would find > >it tough to compete against OCaml in most other > niches > > That Erlang is niche-specific is exactly my point -- > it's a niche that is > ripe for major productivity improvements, and I can > believe a factor of > 10:1 for Erlang over traditional languages within > that niche. > I would have to disagree with this guys. Erlang is no more niche specific the Ocaml, C, C++, or any other general purpose language. Simply becuase it was created at Ericsson (a telecom company) and its used primarily in telecom apps at the moment does not make it a niche language. Now this niche mentioned is filled very well by Erlang, but Erlang is by no means limited to that niche. Many people that have never seen or used Erlang by into this myth but it is simply not the case. Granted it uses a somewhat diffrent paradigm then the standard mainstream langauges be they imperative or functional, but that doesn't make it a niche langauge by defualt. Using that argument all functional languages would be niche langauges, for that matter so would OO languages. In any case, Erlang is not a niche langauge. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners