And not to resume those arguments, but it's a red herring. Erlang benefits from having unfamiliar syntax. You end up learning the new paradigm as you learn the

And not to resume those arguments, but it's a red herring. Erlang benefits from having unfamiliar syntax. You end up learning the new paradigm as you learn the new syntax; it's too easy to shoehorn the old paradigm in if it's the old syntax ("I can write FORTRAN in any language").