Every time I read something about the weird Erlang syntax I get so tired and try and tell myself not to get into the discussion, it's not worth the effort, some people will never just never learn, etc. But sometimes I can't help myself. So some of my thoughts on this:

- Syntax is the easiest part of learning a language. It's all written down and its just a RTFM. And yes, I have written a lot of C and lisp and prolog and erlang and ... and I never have problems with the syntax.

- If people worry so much about the syntax what happens when they get to the semantics?

- Seriously, why would you want to Erlang to have similar syntax to a language with different semantics? In my view that would be asking for trouble. I think one reason why I haven't had trouble with mixing languages is that both the syntax and the semantics are different. C looks like and behaves like C while Erlang looks like and behaves like Erlang.

- The erlang syntax is actually very simple, much simpler than the languages you would like it to look like.

I will now stop before I say something nasty.

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