There's a quote from Joe Armstrong saying something like that > As Erlang became popular we were often asked "Is Erlang OO" - well, of course the true answer w

There's a quote from Joe Armstrong saying something like that > As Erlang became popular we were often asked "Is Erlang OO" - well, of course the true answer was "No of course not" - but we didn't to say this out loud - so we invented a serious of ingenious ways of answering the question that were designed to give the impression that Erlang was (sort of) OO (If you waved your hands a lot) but not really (If you listened to what we actually said, and read the small print carefully). https://stackoverflow.com/a/11809324/903589 https://stackoverflow.com/a/11809324/903589