ByMyReckoning

I've noticed an interesting post on Lambda the Ultimate which referred to a post over on the development blog of an online gaming site called Vendetta Online.

"The new erlang based system is now in production. For those who haven't been following, we ran into problems with our existing Lisp-based system (named "Deliverator") which handles high-level AI behaviour.. large groups of NPCs, large battles and the like. Over the last couple of months, we've been in the process of migrating to a much more scalable architecture (named "Kourier") based on Erlang, an elegant distributed-programming platform. Lisp has not yet been phased out, we have a hybrid combination of both for right now, while we migrate each part of functionality from Deliverator to Kourier. This is mostly happening on a case-by-case basis, for instance, Escort missions now run entirely on Kourier. But other, less-commonly-used functionality is still running on Deliverator and will be migrated as we move forward."

This interesting, but I still think that Scala could be stealing Erlangs thunder since it provides lower barrier to entry into FP and borrows the Erlang concurrency model.

In addition, from a marketing point of view, it may have a better name

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