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The title should be "Useful Elm code which could be useful if you decide to code a game in Elm", not "Developing Games in Elm".

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This is typical for functional languages:

1) build a functional language with lots of features but having a really weird ML-style syntax (because 'succinct' and "you don't need those braces")

2) create a try[lang name].com website

3) ?

4) Profit!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)

ML syntax is only weird if you consider C/ALGOL style the one true normal. if nothing else, the fact that so many languages use it should remove it from the "weird" category; it's simply the style that matches ML-style programming most pleasantly.

"most pleasantly" - that is also very subjective.

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