&gt; If you seriously look at the Erlang syntax you will find it is very simple, concise and consistent<p>You&#x27;re serious and I&#x27;m not, gotcha. This adversarial attitude you assume, isn&#x27;t helping. Work on that first.<p>&gt; I know and have used about 9-10 so far so what is really the problem?<p>The problem is that you think it&#x27;s trivial and other developers overwhelmingly don&#x27;t. To be fair, it&#x27;s only the first barrier to entry. After that you learn the sad state of Erlang data structures and expected language interoperability.