Re:I Use Ugly Languages
by masklinn on Friday December 21, 2012 @01:00PM
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> Erlang is actually a fairly elegant language, it's just weird-looking
Most of the "sequential erlang" syntax is ugly as hell, from the various separators (statement, case, function) to the (downright dreadful) records syntax or the function reference syntax (both anonymous functions and reference to named functions are pretty bad).
The language itself, as in the model and the underlying concepts and ideas, are generally neat, but the syntax isn't when compared to Haskell or even MLs derivatives.
Aside from the literal bit syntax, that part is beautiful (for the most part, the complex modifier atoms still weird me out)
Most of the "sequential erlang" syntax is ugly as hell, from the various separators (statement, case, function) to the (downright dreadful) records syntax or the function reference syntax (both anonymous functions and reference to named functions are pretty bad).
The language itself, as in the model and the underlying concepts and ideas, are generally neat, but the syntax isn't when compared to Haskell or even MLs derivatives.
Aside from the literal bit syntax, that part is beautiful (for the most part, the complex modifier atoms still weird me out)