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While I welcome all Erlang-spreading efforts, I quite like the Erlang syntax. It initially looked more ridiculous than managed C++, but after about seven month
by vorobei 17y ago
While I welcome all Erlang-spreading efforts, I quite like the Erlang syntax.
It initially looked more ridiculous than managed C++, but after about seven months of daily Erlang programming it's the most natural thing ever.
The problem with C-style syntax is that it encourages the diversity of coding conventions. Python makes everyone's code look about the same because of its ingenious whitespace-handling rules. Erlang's syntax appears to achieve a similar result because of its ... weirdness.