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The problem with the syntax isn't that it's weird. It's just ugly. Even Perl and C++ look nicer. It's the 1998-geocities-site-full-of-animated-gifs of programmi
by el_presidente 14y ago
The problem with the syntax isn't that it's weird. It's just ugly. Even Perl and C++ look nicer. It's the 1998-geocities-site-full-of-animated-gifs of programming languages.
- pivo 14y agoI thought this way about Erlang code at first too, but after a short time I came around and now I think it can be extremely elegant and even beautiful.
- danssig 14y ago> It's just ugly. Even Perl and C++ look nicer. Totally disagree. Erlang is odd, but you have to understand what you're getting with that. Variable unification, etc., if very powerful (kind of like Haskell's pattern matching but a bit more powerful).