Learn Erlang in 5 seconds - competition - win a prize

[Marc van Woerkom]

>  I have been asked to hold a talk at a Smalltalk conference <gulp>
>
>   
That happens. Here is a nice example:

  Side note: When I approached the FreeBSD booth, my first question was,
  "So, what's FreeBSD doing here at LinuxWorld?" Without losing a beat,
  the FreeBSD guy responded, "Actually, in an alternate universe, I'm
  attending BSDWorld and there's one Linux booth. However, my transporter
  malfunctioned 'cause it was running Linux, and so here I am."
  Best nerd one-liner I've heard at the show.
 
  http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/413


>  So I have to convince a conference room full of Smalltalkers to become
>  "To make a fault-tolerant system you need two computers because if you
> only have one and it 
>   crashes you're sunk so you'd better use Erlang cos all other languages
> suck."
>
>  Which I can just about say in 5 seconds.
>
>  So now comes the challenge.
>
>  Can you suggest alternative/better course material.
>   
10s: In the above sense:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:STMirrorMirror.jpg

  Welcome to the mirror universe!  
  No OOP. No UML. Easy concurrency. Easy distribution.
  Erlang.


 5s:

   Objects 3.0: Lightweight processes + easy distribution = Erlang



Regards,
Marc