Erlang (and elixir) are very unfairly bunched with Haskell since they are both functional languages; in practice they are functional in form and in the large, b

Erlang (and elixir) are very unfairly bunched with Haskell since they are both functional languages; in practice they are functional in form and in the large, but they make compromises which really make them "a working person's language", not something to live in the ivory tower.