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I get pissed when noobs diss lisp for its parens, and yet I complain about erlang's syntax. Mea culpa. When I complain about its syntax I'm really thinking abo
by akkartik 16y ago
I get pissed when noobs diss lisp for its parens, and yet I complain about erlang's syntax. Mea culpa.
When I complain about its syntax I'm really thinking about its error messages. Leave out a comma, or replace a period with a semicolon, and prepare to be confounded. They take some getting used to, and I've never managed to get past them in several attempts.
- mattrepl 16y agoErlang annoyed me in the same way. The syntax was fine, except for the comma or semicolon and period issue. Made moving code a pain.
- rvirding 16y agoI find that the actual moving of code is the least of my worries when writing a program. It's working out what to move which takes much longer time.
- lelele 16y agoSome people - myself included - follow a style of developing code which requires you continuously moving code around, therefore speed in doing that is important. Does Erlang mode in Emacs understand Erlang's "sentences"?