March 3, 2009

Read a pretty funny article hypothesizing a world where Airlines inherited the traits of specific programming languages.

I figured I’d throw in my two cents and do…

Erlang Air

You arrive at a fairly rudimentary airport on your way to Tokyo. Only Herring is available in the food court, along with bottled water. No explanation is given in regards to the dearth of options. Stranger still, all the staff appear to have very restricted linguistic skills coupled with awkward inflections in their speech.

Regardless, you figure out how to check in and get on the plane. Predictably, more Herring is served. Unfortunately, the plane hits an air pocket, resulting in a massive drop in altitude, in turn leading to the engines burning out.

Strangely, all the staff are calm, they move to the exit doors and open them mid-flight… absolute chaos reigns momentarily as we get sucked out of the aircraft and into thin air. Just as suddenly, we’re back in an aircraft, it appears to be the same one, we all have the same seats and we’re still heading to Tokyo.

;)

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