Re: Practicality of functional and logic languages?

joe@erix.ericsson.se (Joe Armstrong)
Thu, 14 Jan 1993 16:57:35 GMT

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From: joe@erix.ericsson.se (Joe Armstrong)
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 16:57:35 GMT
References: 93-01-059 93-01-074
Keywords: functional, design

tobbe@erix.ericsson.se (Torbj|rn T|rnkvist) writes:
|> The functional, real-time language: Erlang, developed at the Ellemtel
|> Computer Science Lab has been used, among other things, for implementing
|> telephony applications.


One such application currently weighs in at 123,000 lines of
Erlang typically one line of Erlang has the expressive power of aprox. 6
lines of C++ (for our applications) so this actually sizable program - not
an academic toy!


Joe Armstrong
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