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by wtetzner 4826 days ago
> In all fairness sharpening your erlang axe might take 24 months not 24 hours.

In all fairness it won't. Erlang is not a difficult language to learn, and honestly, it doesn't take that much effort for the syntax to become familiar.

The semantics of Erlang are different from that of C-like languages, and therefore I think it's good that it has different syntax. You could give it C-like syntax, but that might be just as confusing, if not more so, since it wouldn't mean the same thing it did in C.

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>Erlang is not a difficult language to learn

I'd like confirm this. It doesn't even have loops, you have to use recursion (and only recursion).