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I'm a big Erlang fan, but I think that the concepts it introduces can be ported to other languages with enough work. Bringing Erlang concepts to more traditional languages has the potential to completely transform how we think about structuring massively parallel programs. Personally, I can't wait for python to transparently scale to thousands of machines. A pipe dream, perhaps, but that's what I'm pulling for.

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Why wait for Python to reinvent itself? Just use Erlang and call Python libraries from Erlang if you really need them.

I have no problem using Erlang when I need it, but eventually concurrency is a problem that every language is going to have to deal with more effectively than it does now. The Actor pattern makes a lot of sense to me conceptually, and makes it trivial to parallelize systems. It's not like Erlang's the end all, be all of programming languages, but it is a forward looking one. I look forward to other languages catching up with it.

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