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This demo looks really great, is the software driving the site written in erlang?

At the bottom of the page it says "Powered by Erlang Web". Erlang Web is a script written in procedural PHP to simplify website maintenance.

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Huh?

Erlang Web is pure Erlang, it doesn't have a single line of PHP. [http://www.erlang-web.org/]

It was a joke :(

I thought it was funny.

Ah. Didn't get it.

Probably because writing erlang.org in PHP actually makes more sense to me than writing it in Erlang (: