The Syntax is the first hard step to go over for many people. Erlang is hardly what you'd call an easy to read language, except if you've used functional langua

The Syntax is the first hard step to go over for many people. Erlang is hardly what you'd call an easy to read language, except if you've used functional languages before. The recursion and pattern matching are relatively uncommon (and different from what you can get from Haskell, too), with naming conventions and atoms also a bit weird at first. Once you get used to it, it becomes very easy to read and concise language. Once you know it. (like anything else.) The syntax turns off a lot of people. It's a shame because even if you might never use Erlang for personal or real-world project (although it's very well done for that), you'll see a different way to do error management and possibly to organize code, depending on what you've done before. It's worth learning.