🔗 How I fell in love with Erlang

I was eight years old when I first tried to hack the intro screens of Commodore-64 games. I found a BASIC programming book and opened it with all the enthusiasm of a kid who thought he was about to unlock the secrets of the universe. Page after page of mysterious commands, strange symbols, promises of power.

And then I saw it:

10 X = 5
20 X = X + 1
30 PRINT X

I closed the book.

X equals X plus one? That’s not math. That’s a lie. Zero can’t equal one. This was nonsense, and I wanted nothing to do with it.

Little did I know that this moment of confusion would define the next two decades of my life.