Just read a 30 page intro tutorial on Erlang.

I like the idea of being able to do base cases without a conditional
structure.

fac(1) ->
    1;
fac(N) ->
    N * fac(N - 1).

Message passing is cool, too.

Though calling modulus rem is kind of lame.



On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:34 -0500, Gary Johnson wrote:
> Howdy h4x0rs,
> 
>   I just ran across a blog post which does a nice job of summing up
>   the differences (and similarities) between a number of well-known
>   programming languages and gives suggestions for when to use one over
>   another.
> 
>   Dig it.
> 
>   http://web.mac.com/jimbokun/iWeb/Site/Blog/AB35C167-7755-4113-938C-968F65256D76.html
> 
>   Cheers,
>     ~Gary