My question is why hire by language? Why not get good engineers and have them ramp up? I understand that for many projects this is not desired, particularly in a HR-rich environment, but if the project is erlang-based, there is likely lots to learn there.<p>Is it not fair to presume that a good engineer will pick up the language, or are we stuck in the resume framework of <i>n</i> years of ---bol?
I haven't had any experience with Erlang so I decided to give it a try.<p>I got about three sentences into the tutorial when I encountered "Remember to terminate every expression with a DOT followed by a whitespace!"<p>At this point I stopped and will never try it again.