Learning Erlang

I've been looking at Erlang for a couple of days now, and although writing code in this language felt truly weird at first, it occured to me early that programming can probably be abstracted like this:

1. Do one thing and do it well
2. Repeat

It's the Unix philosophy applied to function-level programming.

I haven't done anything outside examples and tutorials yet, but I can think of at least two projects I've worked on, adTracker and adAggregator, that would be terrific to re-implement in Erlang.