tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29318620051321872052011-05-22T06:44:58.310-07:00Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11059316496121100950noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2931862005132187205.post-62172162998256696022008-11-22T11:03:00.000-08:002008-11-22T11:16:22.960-08:00<p>Functional programming languages have been around for a long time, of course, but they have only very recently begun to be adopted for more mainstream programming tasks. This is reflected in the job market and the <a href="http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/">IT Jobs Watch</a> website does an excellent job of trending job market trends over time for different programming languages, including Erlang. The <a href="http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/erlang.do">results</a> are nothing short of miraculous:</p><p>This shows that, at least in the UK, the Erlang's market share in the job market has quadrupled in recent months. Demand for Erlang is now almost 3× higher than demand for <a href="http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/lisp.do">Lisp</a>.<br /></p><p>However, the salaries offered for Erlang programmers are not competitive, with the most common range being only £30-39k. As we predicted in 2007, this trend is driven by employers using programming language diversity as a way to identify superior candidates and this trend is driving more and more young developers to better their programming abilities and job prospects by learning advanced languages like Erlang, <a href="http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/?eb">OCaml</a> and <a href="http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/fsharp_journal/?eb">F#</a>.<br /></p><p>We believe this trend will continue for several years to come and functional languages will take substantial market share from dying languages like C++ (which has already seen a drop from 30% to only 16% market share since 2004).</p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2931862005132187205-6217216299825669602?l=erlangnews.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11059316496121100950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2931862005132187205.post-4551983513415954592008-07-11T04:20:00.000-07:002008-07-11T04:39:55.644-07:00<p>Popular on-line retailer <a href="http://www.amazon.com/">Amazon.com</a> was founded in 1994, posted their <a href="http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-819688.html?hhTest=1">first profits in 2002</a> and have now asserted themselves as one of the world's largest booksellers. Amazon recently announced their <span style="font-style: italic;">second</span> large-scale development using Erlang.</p><p>Amazon's internal Simple Queue Service (SQS) was their first Erlang venture.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=342335011">SimpleDB</a> high-performance database is Amazon's latest Erlang venture, <span class="small">a web service for running queries on structured data in real time</span>.<br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2931862005132187205-455198351341595459?l=erlangnews.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11059316496121100950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2931862005132187205.post-49111566638364603272008-01-01T01:55:00.000-08:002008-01-01T02:07:27.494-08:00<p><a href="http://www.guildsoftware.com/">Guild Software</a>, the creators of <a href="http://www.vendetta-online.com/">Vendetta Online</a>, recently <a href="http://www.vendetta-online.com/h/news.html">announced their decision</a> to write their server software "Kourier" in Erlang.</p><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2931862005132187205-4911156663836460327?l=erlangnews.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11059316496121100950noreply@blogger.com0