"1. Today’s mainstream developers who are used to C or Java like syntax wont find its Prolog-like syntax too friendly. Unless you started programming since the 80’s & 90’s and are used to languages of similar syntax, it will take quite some time before you get comfortable with Erlang’s weird syntax. I never felt too comfortable with the syntax."

Huh? And...huh? It's not prolog like, and it's not like anything mainstream from the 80s and 90s. What am I missing here?