The main point is usually about reliability and fault-tolerance. Distribution and concurrency are a bit of a lucky side-effect from that (and the standards that

The main point is usually about reliability and fault-tolerance. Distribution and concurrency are a bit of a lucky side-effect from that (and the standards that were in the telecom world back then). I'm exaggerating, but distribution came into the language much much later and wasn't exactly a design goal when the language was started as far as I know :)