3 ms·
This article reminds me of the "JavaScript is Scheme" meme from a while ago. In that people wanted to increase the prestige of their favourite(?) language by sh
by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
This article reminds me of the "JavaScript is Scheme" meme from a while ago. In that people wanted to increase the prestige of their favourite(?) language by shoehorning it into a comparison with something high-status; which comparison, when you think about it, doesn't make much sense.
> Interesting curiosity, which proves that the Erlang Syntax is some sort of Platonic Language Ideal that predates all programming languages.
Because it supports definition by cases and an if-then-else construct? And because it uses the same punctuation marks that ordinary natural language sentences do? Give me a break.
- old_sound 10y agoGo get your break, while you are at it, get a laugh or two, because that's what this article is supposed to be about. nobody is so silly to pretend Knuth was describing Erlang on his book.
- rdtsc 10y ago> Because it supports definition by cases and an if-then-else construct? And because it uses the same punctuation marks that ordinary natural language sentences do? Give me a break. Yes, the author, a known Erlang developer and a long time programmer really thought Knuth was using Erlang in this book, and, is now trying to convince you to rewrite every single program you wrote in Erlang as well. Geez...