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by WalterBright 609 days ago
There's much more to it than the programming language.

Algorithms can be faulty as well.

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> There's much more to it than the programming language.

Which was never claimed.

That paper is a little bit about Erlang and a whole lot about OTP and other methodology and design technique.

It is still, very much "the paper" for distributed systems, though its applicability to this particular problem is limited.