I do get tired of the Erlang syntax complaints. Why should a language syntactically look like another language if the semantics are different? Erlang and Java a

I do get tired of the Erlang syntax complaints. Why should a language syntactically look like another language if the semantics are different? Erlang and Java are very different languages so why should they look the same? IMAO this will be even more confusing than having to learn a new syntax. When teaching Erlang we have problems with '=' and that though it looks a assignment it is really a match with completely different semantics.