"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." If you knew Joe, you'd know he was strict about feature-creep in Erlang. He removed Paramaterized Modules, e

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." If you knew Joe, you'd know he was strict about feature-creep in Erlang. He removed Paramaterized Modules, even though it broke some popular Erlang projects -- including the Chicago Boss Web Framework. This was one of the reasons Elixir was created. To make it more "approachable" to people who didn't have the inclination to be FP purists.