> Because it supports definition by cases and an if-then-else construct? And because it uses the same punctuation marks that ordinary natural language sentences

> Because it supports definition by cases and an if-then-else construct? And because it uses the same punctuation marks that ordinary natural language sentences do? Give me a break. Yes, the author, a known Erlang developer and a long time programmer really thought Knuth was using Erlang in this book, and, is now trying to convince you to rewrite every single program you wrote in Erlang as well. Geez...