Great post! Let me just say that for a person like me, who hasn't really used Erlang in large projects (mostly on small projects for fun), this post (as a retor

Great post! Let me just say that for a person like me, who hasn't really used Erlang in large projects (mostly on small projects for fun), this post (as a retort to the previous one) was a really insightful introduction to the mentality behind/in Erlang. One comment I've wanted to make about the initial post by Sudarshan Acharya and his point about Erlang's syntax is the following: before delving into functional languages, I had mostly experienced imperative & OO programming. The syntax of any language doesn't really bother me: it's already unintuitive enough that I have to learn a new language, based on typed text, to tell the computer what to do, that worrying about it / contemplating its reason for existence isn't gonna help me in any way.