@Jack: Yes, gratuitous verbosity sure doesn’t make it any easier. On the E and Erlang note, you might be interested to check out Termite, an Erlang-like concurrency model implemented on top the Gambit-C Scheme system and capable of supporting millions of concurrent lightweight processes.

@Albert: You’re reading this on a site built using a dynamic language ;-) Sounds like you hail from a rather interesting niche in the B&D-oriented software ecosphere that dynamic languages haven’t at all penetrated to yet. Even ignoring Lisp and Smalltalk, your claim is rendered fallacious by Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby, all of which have been around for a while now.