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Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good by nirvana on Saturday August 20, 2011 @06:35PM (#2907899)
Erlang is easy to read and makes a lot of sense, without requiring much brainpower... if you'll take a few days and read about it.

I think its kinda silly that people will just ignore a language because it doesn't look like java/C/pascal. Its not like the syntax of erlang is stupid, or pointlessly obtuse.

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Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good by SoftwareMaven on Saturday August 20, 2011 @06:55PM (#2907949)
IMO, the only really ugly part of Erlang is it's record syntax, but it's binary handling more than makes up for it!

Doing Erlang at the day job for the last few months has been awesome. I really wish it would catch on more. Maybe when the JVM supports tail-call optimization and there is a JVM implementation of the runtime...

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Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good by rvirding on Sunday August 21, 2011 @05:43PM (#2910385)
We know, we know. BUT no one has come up with a better syntax that really works, all the time. There have been suggestions but none have really worked.
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Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good by barrym on Sunday August 21, 2011 @05:05AM (#2908810)
I write Erlang every day and love it, but I have to agree with most of the points raised by http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html
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