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To me the power of Erlang comes from a combination of powerful VM and OTP. In the era of hype for SOA, OTP

You can run multiple apps on the same VM and they will run concurrently and communicate with each other using protocols that are core of the language.

I agree, erlang seems weird at first, simply because there is not anything like it. It also solved todays problems with software a decade ago.