IMO. Learning erlang / BEAM would make someone better in Elixir because this one would know what happens behind the scenes.
tiagodavi
aenglisc
RobertDober
that means of course that, when you change an opinion, a new you is ceated…
Gladly it shares everything else, structurally, with your old yourself.
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felideon
In the words of Ken Tilton:
Parentheses? What parentheses? I haven’t noticed any parentheses since my first month of Lisp programming. I like to ask people who complain about parentheses in Lisp if they are bothered by all the spaces between words in a newspaper…
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tiagodavi
Why is so complicated to talk to other developers? I am not complaining about anything. It’s just my opinion. I don’t think I should waste time discussing if fork is better than spoon. They are both tools and that’s it. Use what you need.
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alice
felideon
Right, sorry. I should have emphasized the first part of the quote. The point of the quote is that, after a while of programming in Lisp, the parentheses become invisible. You get used to them, especially with a good editor.
But yes, the parens are a feature. It’s not so much that lispers like parens as much as they like the benefits of using s-expressions. Note how Clojure introduced square brackets and curly braces, but kept the s-expressions. (Unlike, say Dylan, which tossed out sexprs for a more ALGOL-like syntax.)
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tiagodavi
ardhitama
Have you ever worked with Leiningen?
Maven repo download speed?
Clojure stack trace?
Java-Clojure interop and its type syntax?
JVM startup time?
Missing parentheses?
JVM 8 and 12 incompatibility?
And so on…
I have so much scar about clojure, but when it works, it works.
As to answer of the benefit of elixir, is I don’t have to deal with those pain.
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