I've heard it put that Erlang was created to solve the issues of distributed system, and as a result, solved concurrency for free. I really like it because it

I've heard it put that Erlang was created to solve the issues of distributed system, and as a result, solved concurrency for free. I really like it because it feels like it was meant to do something other than pad out a thesis--it's probably the only functional language other than F# or LINQ to do that.