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zabzonklast Sunday at 4:12 PM4 repliesview on HN

In my experience, everyone finds the syntax of their favourite language lovely - I love (mostly) C++.


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aeoniklast Sunday at 4:48 PM

Not me!

I don't like the syntax of Lisps, with the leading parenthesis to begin every expression.

I use it anyway because it's so useful and powerful. And I don't have any better ideas.

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ben-schaaflast Sunday at 4:24 PM

As someone who works almost exclusively in C++, the whole "most vexing parse" makes the syntax indefensible.

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guidopallemanslast Sunday at 5:17 PM

I don't like how Python does lambdas, its indentation-based blocks, how there's both ' and ", I could go on.

jeltzlast Sunday at 4:17 PM

I am an exception then. Rust may be my favourite language but the syntax is pretty awful and one of its biggest weaknesses. I also love Ruby but I am pretty meh about its syntax.

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