[yellowapple]

I think it's more accurate to say that OTP's dogma comes specifically from it having chased down pragmatism to a fault, to the point where whether or not OTP's doing something is a reasonably-reliable indicator of whether or not that something is a good idea (at least for Erlang's typical use cases) and therefore arguably warrants the dogmatism.

[gmfawcett]

That's a good way to put it. I think we're in agreement that dogma wasn't avoided in this case.