Re:Why Erlang looks like it does
by cbd1984 on Sunday January 24, 2016 @11:51PM
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The downfall of Prolog's syntax is its weird rules surrounding whitespace and indentation. A few braces and a little more Algol or Lisp wouldn't have killed you, you know.
Of course, Python followed the same strange ideas, so I guess they're well-ingrained now.
Re:Why Erlang looks like it does
by rvirding on Monday January 25, 2016 @11:47AM
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I don't know of any rules in Prolog surrounding indentation and the only whitespace rule I know of is that you cannot have whitespace between a functor and the left paren of its arguments. What have I missed?
Of course, Python followed the same strange ideas, so I guess they're well-ingrained now.