So what's wrong with the shell? and what's wrong with Erlang? It's not LISP! - Joe Armstrong

The number of states of three variables in javascript could have is greater of the total number of the atoms of the planet.

I am the world's worst C programmer because it's so complicated I can't understand it [...] All I know is that whenever I write C, my pointers are always missed by one from where they're supposed to go.

In Erlang, F(G(X)) is used for small steps. Pipes are used for big steps. The big steps semantics is processes. It's messages between processes. Processes are used for big computation. When you got F(G(X)) is a small step, and we map small steps on the same core. We map big steps on processes. Processes map on multi-core. The system just does it for you.