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Re:Why Erlang? by el_presidente on Sunday April 22, 2012 @10:40PM (#3876973)
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.
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Re:Why Erlang? by pivo on Sunday April 22, 2012 @11:58PM (#3877140)
I 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.
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Re:Why Erlang? by danssig on Monday April 23, 2012 @09:30AM (#3878650)
> 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).

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