I'm in the same boat on this one. I got an Erlang book, read up everything I could on the -background- of the language (It's older than Java!) Got all mushy ove

I'm in the same boat on this one. I got an Erlang book, read up everything I could on the -background- of the language (It's older than Java!) Got all mushy over the features and the promise of potential 99.99 uptime or whatever the statistic. This functional programming syntax is difficult, though. I'll probably play with something like Reia (Ruby syntax, Erlang vm) but I realize I'd still have to get a good handle on the Erlang language regardless. I really feel like it was an arbitrary design choice :\