Why Erlang looks like it does
The "look" of Erlang (and Elixir didn't really address this) isn't about the primitives, but about the surrounding syntax and structures (records!). Nobody looks at Erlang and asks, wtf is an atom. They look at the horrible mess of the prolog structures and say "it's not worth it to learn" or worse, "let's just rewrite it".<p>Also, the link seems strangely mistitled.