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0 pointsdragonwriter9y ago0 comments

Funny that you praise languages using ML-family syntax while complaining about language designers using "old" syntaxes.

Though I guess ML syntax is a tiny bit less ancient than either s-expression or Algol syntax, which seems to be what you are complaining about.

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k__9y ago

Really? Didn't know that :)

But after doing a search, it seems you're right. Languages with ML-family syntax weren't very popular the last 20 years. Most languages look like C or Algol these days.

I only knew that I didn't like most trailing delimitters and I knew only a few languages that didn't have them.

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