Elixir doesn't have a better syntax than Erlang, it has a syntax that you can relate to and a syntax that makes sense to you. The first time I encountered Erl

Elixir doesn't have a better syntax than Erlang, it has a syntax that you can relate to and a syntax that makes sense to you. The first time I encountered Erlang I said Meh! After doing serious development in Prolog for a year, Erlang clicked! The first version of Erlang was implemented in Prolog and retained Prolog's syntax. There's reason behind the madness. As I mentioned in my other comment, "," and ";" signify OR and AND. One of the great thing about OR and AND is that they can be greatly parallelized. We haven't seen the last of Prolog & Erlang. With multicores being a thing, the language of the future is going to look more like them. The last serious research I saw done on these where in the 90's. So that annoying syntax is going to allow programs to gain performance advantage with more cores without being rewritten. The only thing that needs to change will be the run time. BEAM for Erlang and WAM for prolog.