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0 pointsjraph5y ago0 comments

Mainstream languages probably look very verbose, clunky and ugly to many people who like Haskell-like syntaxes more. I feel this way when looking at a Pascal code.

But they have to keep in mind that this verbosity is a feature and they should not act surprised that many people like it. This verbosity makes many things explicit, and I'll not be the first to think that "Explicit is better than implicit".

Conciseness is also a feature, though.

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pyrale5y ago

> This verbosity makes many things explicit

Sometimes, the verbosity just makes the language verbose. A pythonista will have zero trouble telling you when a block ends, despite not having braces around it.

Verbosity is unrelated to a language's explicitness as this is a semantic decision. It is usually related to syntax, which has other effects.

dmitriid5y ago

I'm still looking for that sweet middle ground between the two :)

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