Yay! If you should get close to eastern Austria (probably a 2-3 week trip from Zurich by bike, but looks like it could be well worth it), there's a couch I can offer you in Vienna (-:
I followed that link to ECLM and finally ended up listening to talk about a ticket reservation system written in Lisp. I must admit thet the talking about threads, 24x7 system, code upgrade etc, struck me as the perfect use case for Erlang. And now there is even LFE if you're so inclined... I wonder if there are any 'Lisp shops' around that has considered Erlang at all?
Lisp hackers do know about Erlang and often borrow ideas from it. See for example the Butterfly slides from another ECLM talk, or earlier Erlang-emulation libraries like CL-MUPROC. They seem to have an easy time with message-passing, pattern matching, and distribution. Light-weight isolated processes seem too hard in Lisp though, so you can safely stick with Erlang :-)
The ticket reservation system does sound like an extremely good match for Erlang. ITA is a very established Lisp shop of 10+ years and 50+ hackers though . They have an interesting history of success with Lisp. I'm sure they know about Erlang but I don't expect they could switch even if they wanted to.
btw: Dan Weinreb (the speaker) was a founder of Symbolics and he wrote Lisp Machine Emacs. Like I say, history. :-)
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The ticket reservation system does sound like an extremely good match for Erlang. ITA is a very established Lisp shop of 10+ years and 50+ hackers though . They have an interesting history of success with Lisp. I'm sure they know about Erlang but I don't expect they could switch even if they wanted to.
btw: Dan Weinreb (the speaker) was a founder of Symbolics and he wrote Lisp Machine Emacs. Like I say, history. :-)
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