If he said "use Erlang" then that eliminates the actual message he's trying to convey, which is message passing is good. I bet if he simply said "use Erlang",

If he said "use Erlang" then that eliminates the actual message he's trying to convey, which is message passing is good. I bet if he simply said "use Erlang", 99% of headlines and discussion would be "Alan Kay said Erlang is the greatest language evah!" I do appreciate that he respects his audience, ie me, enough that he thinks we can read "message passing is good" and go from there to choosing a message passing language that is suitable for our needs, or even using a non message passing language due to other factors, but recognizing that OOP is about message passing and not state encapsulation, which would impact how I code even in Java.