How Much Has Scala Influenced Erlang?

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8 pointsdaleharvey6 comments

Another little-known fact: that JVM that Erlang was originally written on? It was coded by Scott McNealy! It was a side project of his to prove to Bill Joy that he wasn't just a suit.

Don't you mean just VM (Virtual Machine).

Many people seem to forget that the J in JVM stands for Java, the term seems to be increasingly misused lately.

This article is some sort of parody or alternate history where Erlang was originally implemented on the JVM.

(In case anyone isn't sure: Erlang was originally written in Prolog in the 1980s before the JVM even existed.)

I don't really get the joke. I don't suppose someone would mind explaining it.

Someone twittered "Did Scala influence Erlang?". Since Erlang development started 17 years before Scala appeared, this seems unlikely. The blog post was a deadpan attempt at a humorous response. My comment was hoping to generate more humorous responses on HN, but alas …

Don't feel bad weichi, I got it.

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