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functional programming and in particular erlang is pretty much a godsend for working with a large codebase.

erlang is designed around intercommunication, there was some rule about how a team of 3 would make a 3 pass compiler, in erlang everything is explicitly isolated and you have to design specifically how the various parts of the system communicate with each other



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