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		adenozine on Dec 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flix – Next-generation reliable, concise, function... This is the worst syntax I've seen in a functional language, by far. Semicolons, braces, symbolic soup, et al. It's like if Scala, Java and Haskell had a one night stand in the center of Chernobyl.

twoquestions on Dec 23, 2020 | [–]

I don't mind the punctuation noise, but I might just have bad taste.

I'm stealing the "had a one night stand in the middle of Chernobyl", that's hilarious!

rafaelvasco on Dec 23, 2020 | [–]

I liked it. Clean to my eyes. Worst syntax for me are Lispy languages followed by Rust. That is punctuation hell;

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