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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
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@rk@mastodon.well.com  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

I still remember trying to sell people on Erlang back at an old job and it went something like “think of it as concurrent functional lisp” and they were like “Lisp’s syntax is terrible” and I was like “then good news because this is Prolog syntax” and that wasn’t better.

#erlang #programming

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Tim Lavoie
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@tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@rk Lots of people seem to like Elixir now though, for some value of “lots.”

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Hisham
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@hisham_hm@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@tim_lavoie @rk yep — I'm sure "then good news because this is Ruby syntax" is an easier sell than Prolog or Lisp.

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Tim Lavoie
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@tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@hisham_hm @rk Yeah, though I think I’ll lean towards Gleam whenever I wander back to BEAM tinkering.

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