[bradfordw]

No, not a typo or a joke, the mentality of an Erlang programmer is to (and this gets beaten to death in books) "Let it crash." It is ok to let processes fail, you build restart strategies for certain processes so that when they do fail, your supervisors know: how often to try to restart, how many times and of course which module.

[edu]

The point is that the paragrah ends with ",they". Not the idea of fail often fail quickly :)