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Virding's Law: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.

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Comments like this push people away from Erlang rather than draw them in.

I find it quite the opposite: what is it that other languages are trying to re-implement, and why they can't?

It's a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

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