From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-08-22T23:55:47+09:00
Subject: Re: What New Language After Ruby?

Probably it suffices to say that each organization, company, or
institution has its own culture and management policy, which is usually
beyond our control.  Probably Ericsson is more pragmatic, but I don't
think there are any general statistics that say functional programs are as
widely used as procedural programs.

Bill
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Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <dido@imperium.ph> wrote:
> To blow away your argument that functional programs are not widely used
> in industry:  Ericsson generally standardized on the use of Erlang as
> the language of choice for almost all of their internal development.
> Besides, what kind of shop are you running, that your finance managers
> have the ability to dictate to the engineers how they should do their
> job?  I'd think that today's finance managers would understand that the
> engineers know what their doing far better than they ever will, and they
> shouldn't try to meddle too much in that business.

> -- 
> Rafael R. Sevilla <dido at imperium dot ph>	+63(2)8123151
> Software Developer, Imperium Technology Inc.	+63(917)4458925