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
it's like choosing a car by break pad presets and whether it has airbags/ABS built in.
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what criteria would you use?
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Replying to @wycats @glaebhoerl and
By what the thing can do, guarantees provided, if runtime how GCs works, metaprogramming,
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Replying to @deech @glaebhoerl and
isn't "what the thing can do" trivially equivalent due to turing completeness?
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