Just for vsloathe does not jump all over me I am not advocating yaws over

apache

  etc

Erlang

  is language made by erickson for communication switching

net

 works.
It is supposedly robust, scales well etc.

Yaws is a webserver written in

erlang

 .

http://www.sics.se/~joe/

apache

 vsyaws.html
<>

Apache

  (blue and green) dies when subject to a load of c. 4000 parallel sessions. Yaws (red) works well even when subject to high load.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1742
<>What Makes

Erlang

  Processes Tick?

I am not too book smart, so just curious what others think.

Beyond me for the most part as well.

The only thing I remember about

Erlang

  was theories that explained resource management in a call center about 15 years ago. The web server looks interesting though... and wasn't it you quite a while ago @ syndk8 Nop that talked about how if you used threads you'd be slower rather than if you maintained your own state

mac

 hine? Sounds like they've taken that to the nth level - makes sense.

Man I'd better get back to work