an article about the ecoop event i like and understand and that gives me the feeling it was good and worth to fight for the story. hah, and thanks for the support, robert!

Another thing that is not going to make Erlang big is that "sequential Erlang" is a functional programming language. Or that "concurrent Erlang' is an object-oriented language. The thing that is going to make Erlang big is that it is the only mature language with a rock-solid implementation and good set of libraries that lets you write software that can scale seamlessly from a single processor system to a hundred processor system ...
... Joe makes too much of functional programming because he says that lack of mutable state implies no locks. However, it is really lack of SHARED state that implies no locks. | ralph johnson, erlang the next java.

somehow i imagine joe armstrong sitting in his corner, smiling and saying: this is the old church and i am martin luther (audio/mpeg, 349 KB) , or something ... ;)