Message passing belongs up there with lisp, forth and pure functional programming as paradigms that are worth learning for "the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it." But I often see that my peers in the profession lack the kind of growth mentality that enables a person to see past the alienness of less algol-y languages.
see my comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42132104
i can't tell the difference and therefore i don't see what profound enlightenment experience i am supposed to have.
Quote from "How To Become a Hacker" by Eric S. Raymond: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html