interesting, I actually like it. The syntax took some getting used to but I find with functional languages I think more and write a lot less and spend a lot les

interesting, I actually like it. The syntax took some getting used to but I find with functional languages I think more and write a lot less and spend a lot less time debugging. I found Armstrong's book useful also, as well as the tutorial at erlang.org When you consider all that's in CouchDB, the smallness of the code base is impressive. I think that's a direct consequence of the choice of Erlang.