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No curly braces, no hashtables, awkward strings, doesn't look object-oriented. (This coming from someone whose favorite language is Erlang.)
by hassy 16y ago
No curly braces, no hashtables, awkward strings, doesn't look object-oriented.
(This coming from someone whose favorite language is Erlang.)
- ericb 16y agoAll true, but that isn't his justification in the article. He skips Erlang by damning it as confined to a niche, like PHP. Edit: Reia would be worth discussing if those are major obstacles.
- Zak 16y agoHe gives consideration to Clojure, which makes only limited use of curly braces and explicitly rejects object-orientation as most of the world understands it.