-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/15/10 14:34 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
(Remember that Unix is itself a practical example of a research platform "avoiding success at any cost" gone horribly wrong.)
I haven't used Erlang myself, but I've heard it described in a similar way. (I don't know how true that actually is...)
Similar case, actually: internal research project with internal practical uses, then got discovered and "productized" by a different internal group. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxoNoAACgkQIn7hlCsL25XSAgCgtLKTtT8YN99KsArnhW2kMDvh oHcAnR1QrfIaq3hmzqU7yF31NZubEMsR =zpv1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----