[troutwine]

This seems... harsh to me.

Yeah, so Erlang's syntax is prolog inspired and can seem a little peculiar if you're using Algol inspired languages a lot. I _vaguely_ recall a feeling unfamiliar in Erlang land because of syntax but now, six years in, I hardly care about the syntax of _any_ language. It's just the thing you get used to, like speaking in foreign languages. It's just the water in which you swim.