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A comment on Ask HN: What ideas in programming languages do you find difficult to code?.

Re:Ask HN: What ideas in programming languages do you find d... by twobyfour on Monday October 23, 2017 @07:11PM (#15537708)
Erlang's syntax. Ouch.
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Re:Ask HN: What ideas in programming languages do you find d... by segmondy on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:59AM (#15542569)
Start with Prolog. Erlang's root is Prolog.
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Re:Ask HN: What ideas in programming languages do you find d... by deathtrader666 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:50AM (#15540156)
There's Elixir for that..
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Re:Ask HN: What ideas in programming languages do you find d... by twobyfour on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:31AM (#15541798)
Unless you're working on a project already written in Erlang.

Also, my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that Elixir doesn't yet support all the language/runtime features that Erlang does. Has that changed in the past year or so?

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