The packaging and explicit function exporting are also quite similar. The absense of "typical/popular" (c++ as opposed to smalltalk) style of OOP is also shared

The packaging and explicit function exporting are also quite similar. The absense of "typical/popular" (c++ as opposed to smalltalk) style of OOP is also shared. When I began learning Erlang, I immediately understood why people compared them: I found them quite similar to each other (much more simllar to each other than either to c++, python, ruby, perl, lisp, lua, etc) as well.