> In all fairness sharpening your erlang axe might take 24 months not 24 hours. In all fairness it won't. Erlang is not a difficult language to learn, and hone

> In all fairness sharpening your erlang axe might take 24 months not 24 hours. In all fairness it won't. Erlang is not a difficult language to learn, and honestly, it doesn't take that much effort for the syntax to become familiar. The semantics of Erlang are different from that of C-like languages, and therefore I think it's good that it has different syntax. You could give it C-like syntax, but that might be just as confusing, if not more so, since it wouldn't mean the same thing it did in C.