HOW I FELL IN LOVE WITH ERLANG

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When this dev first started programming, they were confused about various concepts, like recursion. They then had years of learning through trial and error with C and Linux, followed by a breakthrough understanding of recursion through Prolog. This led them to discover Erlang, a functional and distributed language, through a conversation at a bridge tournament, where they fell in love with Erlang's message-passing system and fault-tolerant design.