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I started diving into it 4 months ago for fun. At first, I didn't like its syntax style. In case anyone is wondering, this is what I'm talking about:

object.message(arg1, arg2) vs. [object messageOne:arg1 Two:arg2]

But now I'm really enjoying it and working at it full time.

Made my first foray into ObjC this weekend; my goal is to create some iPhone/Touch apps.

Objective-C here, too. It's kinda cool because I get to re-learn C at the same time.

I missed that one, seems to be really popular now thanks to the iphone.

unfortunately. Mixing Objective-C and C and your code looks a little bit frankestein-ly, and it is impossible to avoid. The messaging pass part of Object-C is no near as elegant as erlang.

I'm not familiar with Erlang - can you give an example?

to get started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model

The actor model is a very powerful conecpt. It will become more and more revelant as multiple cores, concurrency, and scalability become more and more important.

I think that Facebook successfully used Erlang for their chat system.