> The point he's making is that Erlang grew organically into its current form by way of continual sculpting during use by its creators, rather than being refine

> The point he's making is that Erlang grew organically into its current form by way of continual sculpting during use by its creators, rather than being refined to approach a theoretical ideal. Thank you. That is exactly what I meant. Whether Erlang satisfies some definition of "functional" or "OO", or "concurrency-oriented" does not matter. What matters is that it's a kick-ass platform for building scalable distributed fault-tolerant apps. (That said, Erlang is a good introductory language for someone who wants to explore functional programming.)