Well, well...

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> Julio César Carrascal Urquijo Wrote:
>> Yes, that's because Erlang supports a mechanism know as process 
>> monitoring in which for most process another process is launched whose 
>> sole task is checking up the behavior of the first one. Process are so 
>> cheap that you can "waste" one process to monitor another and relaunch 
>> it if it crashes.
> 
> Wow, that sounds a lot more complicated than exceptions to do effectively the same thing.

Not quite. This is more of a guardian process as implemented as by 
Apache or FirebirdSQL in which the guardian restarts a process if it has 
miss-behaved but in the case of Erlang is almost one guardian process 
for each process working.