This is one of a series of posts by someone with decades of experience doing game programming. He's also very fond of Erlang (he's been using it since 1999!), a

This is one of a series of posts by someone with decades of experience doing game programming. He's also very fond of Erlang (he's been using it since 1999!), and he's exploring how well it works for a domain he knows, but which is quite far from Erlang's typical niche. Try reading it (and his archives, at http://prog21.dadgum.com/archives.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/archives.html ) in that light. It's not just somebody ranting about how FP is junk after halfheartedly trying to learn Haskell. The "Purely Functional Retrogames" series is particularly good. I would love to see more blogs that have people seriously evaluating how "newer"* languages hold up for real work, not just page-sized Greenfield projects. As he puts it, "Timidity does not convince." (http://prog21.dadgum.com/35.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/35.html). * I know, Erlang isn't that new.