[leoc]

It wasn't an obviously crazy argument, especially at the time. The problem is that, in the best case, Greenspun's Tenth Law catches you. Putting things in-band doesn't make them go away.

[giancarlostoro]

Sidenote: Isn't there also a law / rule that says every concurrent system eventually ends up reinventing Erlang?

[ramchip]

Virding's First Rule of Programming:

> Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.

http://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of-...