Re: Industry versus academia

[Luke Gorrie <address@hidden>]

Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu> writes:

> My conclusion after reading what you wrote is that there are only two kinds
> of language evolution that can happen:
> 
> 1) Industry-initiated and supported languages like java and C# that are
>    very conservative languages whose main purpose is to make things easier
>    on the average programmer without burdening them with much that's new.
> 
> 2) Grass-roots languages that come from academia or from motivated
>    programmers (e.g. ocaml, lisp variants, perl, python, etc.).

Which category would Erlang come under?

Cheers,
Luke