[simpleenigma]

The things you would end up learning about Erlang while writing a web server aren't as much about processes but more about pattern matching.

Most people focus on Erlang as an easy way for multi-core/multiprocessor and distributed computing and it is wonderful at that, but the core of the language is a pattern matching engine that is simply amazing.

Also, anyone who thinks that Erlang is slow with regular expression should convert the regular expressions into a binary and try some pattern matching. That tends to be more of the Erlang Way of doing things ...