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They forgot readability.
by tlammens 17y ago
They forgot readability.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoI disagree. The language is readable, if not intuitive. Once you read the tutorial, the examples all make sense. The intial example given is like a minified version of the code, and is probably not a good first impression.
- tlammens 17y agoI imagine myself having to read a couple of programs written in this language. It looks cluttered. Which doesn't mean I think the concepts of the language are bad. It now just looks like an explosion of \,],['s.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoCompared to ruby/python, sure. Compared to c/c++/erlang eh, not so much.
- labria 17y agoErlang becomes easily readable once you wrote a few dozen lines yourself.
- jhickner 17y agoI thought so at first as well, but if you go through the tutorial, the syntax actually begins to look quite elegant. It just comes off as odd at first because it's dealing with concepts that are actually pretty unique (to my knowledge at least) - streams and latches.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoAgreed. There's a lot of semantics in that there syntax ;)
- yesimahuman 17y agoAnd backslashes are among the characters I enjoy typing the least. But other than that I think it looks very interesting.
- barrkel 17y agoI wonder if this isn't just down to keyboard layouts. US keyboards have an extra-big left shift, and a small return key, with the backslash and pipe above the return. UK (and as far as I'm aware, most other Eurpopean) keyboards have a small left shift with the backslash and pipe key just to the left of the Z. The return key is nice and big, hard to miss. The button above the return is the backspace, also nice and big and hard to miss. (And annoyingly, every single Linux installation I have ever used has mis-mapped the Dvorak translation of the key to the left of the Z, mapping it to < and >, rather than \ and |. I often have to faff about with loadkeys layouts and xmodmap layouts for several hours every time I do a new install.)
- Tuna-Fish 17y agoI just want to add that the guy who designed the Finnish (same as Swedish) keyboard layout obviously held a deep grudge against c programmers -- most non-letter symbols that you need are just awful to access. Backslash is [Alt Gr] amd [+].
- zokier 17y agoYes, the finnish/swedish keyboard layout is just horrible today, when most stuff is designed to be used with US keyboard. That's why I use modified* US-intl layout on my computer even if its bit confusing to use other computers. *added ä and ö keys, as they are needed in finnish.
- axod 17y agoI'm pretty sure it's a joke, like brainfuck, whitespace etc. If not, then god help us all.
- Confusion 17y agoIt's just the first example that is a terrible, terrible turn-off.