To add to this (for those unfamiliar with Erlang/OTP): Erlang not only has general pattern matching, but also specific support for pattern matching on binary co

To add to this (for those unfamiliar with Erlang/OTP): Erlang not only has general pattern matching, but also specific support for pattern matching on binary content (down to bitfields). It's better than C and C++ in that regard in more than one way.