What did you first think of the Erlang syntax

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I think I explained it here while explaining Erlang’s biggest strengths.

Erlang was love at third or fourth sight for me. As it was for most my peers. But it didnt have to be. I just had to see it through the BEAMs eyes and it’d make sense.

In summary of my first (ever) impression -

What I liked about Erlang:

  • How simple the language is (you can learn it on sitting)
  • ! for message passing.

Difficulties I faced:

  • Getting my eyes get used to case-centric atom/variables.
  • , ;
  • Lots of X1 X2 etc aka no re-binding
  • How things were easy to write and hard to read
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