Edwin Young writes:
> From: William Chesters [mailto:williamc@paneris.org]
> > Judging by Max's .sig he's doing embedded telecoms boxes,
> > something like a GSM HLR which juggles many thousands of concurrent
> > transactions in some ghastly protocol or other.
>
> If that's the case, perhaps he should investigate Erlang. Since it was
> designed by Ericsson specifically for embedded telephony apps, it would seem
> an ideal fit. It does indeed support thousands of concurrent threads
> (internal to the interpreter rather than OS-based).
Absolutely, and Erlang looked great to me, except (ironically) I
couldn't help feeling that the lack of imperative data structures was
going to be a bit of a pain. However they were apparently going to
fix that.
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