the confusion between real limitations and pure syntax makes more sense when you realise he's using erlang. erlang's syntax is not exactly wonderful. but the

the confusion between real limitations and pure syntax makes more sense when you realise he's using erlang. erlang's syntax is not exactly wonderful. but the reason you would use erlang isn't because it's a great functional language, but because it is a great distributed/reliable language. the fact that the author is dropping erlang because of (largely) syntax issues, without apparently understanding what they are losing that other languages - imperative or functional - simply don't provide suggests they shouldn't be given that much weight...