When learning new languages you absolutely have to ignore syntax for a bit and get used to it. Syntax does not matter.
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Replying to @ManishEarth @littlecalculist
In other words, syntax should not be the only reason you ditch a language.
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Replying to @ManishEarth @littlecalculist
OTOH, when *designing* a language, syntax does matter. Because it does matter when using the language.
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Replying to @ManishEarth @littlecalculist
It also does matter because you can try to reduce the impediment to adoption as much as possible.
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Obviously you're not going to get the folks who get hung up on `let` vs `var`, but it's a spectrum.
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I find myself being impeded from becoming more familiar with a language due to its syntax all the time.
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I can't agree with the article. Picking a lang. by syntax is like choosing a car by radio presets.
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Replying to @deech @glaebhoerl and
A lang can have many syntaxes. Use whatever you like to work with it.
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a language is first and foremost for communicating with silicon, & only incidentally w/ humans? :P
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Replying to @littlecalculist @deech and
I'm thinking of the model, that syntax may parse / desugar too; can also have many backends
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LLVM IR?
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