joel rules. he will give any useful tech a chance. he approaches problems like an everyman. he isn't afraid to ask for help. i've watched him churn through lisp, haskell and ocaml, and now erlang.

i think he should give haskell another chance. it clobbers erlang on every performance metric, including massive concurrency, which we can now say erlang no longer "owns". otherwise i think c++ is the only option