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This is the manifesto of the Erlang camp. It forgets to mention the other option: adding transactions to shared mutable memory to get Software Transactional Memory. Besides in real systems, message passing style will need to deal with transactions and vice versa.

Here's a discussion between these two: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2048