"funky" basically means "not c style" erlangs syntax is very well thought out, I would even agree it is ugly at times, but it very purposefully avoids any fanc

"funky" basically means "not c style" erlangs syntax is very well thought out, I would even agree it is ugly at times, but it very purposefully avoids any fancy contructs choosing readability every time, erlang (imo) is by far the most readable language around, it is very very hard to find a piece of erlang code that is hard to follow because it only has primitive constructs