"less syntax" isn't necessarily better. The goal isn't to have as few characters...

IshKebab • last Sunday at 5:24 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

"less syntax" isn't necessarily better. The goal isn't to have as few characters as possible.

johnisgood • last Sunday at 5:31 PM

True, it is subjective. I prefer C, Go, PHP, ... and OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, Perl, and sometimes Ada and Common Lisp.

I like the syntaxes of each, although Ada is too verbose to me, and with Factor and Common Lisp I have a skill issue.

WalterBright • last Sunday at 5:29 PM

I agree. I'm not a fan of minimized syntax (see Haskell). But I am a fan of easy to read syntax!

tmtvl • last Sunday at 8:37 PM

If it were we would all be using APL.

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