I feel a bit for Martin as a non-native English speaker. It can be very easy for the native speakers to dominate a discussion unintentionally (and even when try

I feel a bit for Martin as a non-native English speaker. It can be very easy for the native speakers to dominate a discussion unintentionally (and even when trying not to). The impression Erlang gives me is one of being almost an anti-language, emphasising the system at large and discouraging over sophistication in the details. I think the point Joe Armstrong makes about hardware interoperability is telling. His vision of software is one much closer to hardware and the networking. Though I think the fact that there is an awful lot of unnecessary complexity in software it does not mean that sophistication and complexity is not sometimes necessary. Not that he ever voiced that, just sometimes in the process of advocating something pluralism can get left out.