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Honestly? Erlang's syntax is not that bad. It's not great in that it has prolog legacy with uncanny valleys to C-legacy left and right, but it's effective. Really the only really tricky thing for a newbie is strings.
these things are very much a matter of taste. what does "effective" mean with respect to syntax? for instance, lispers will argue that their syntax is effective because of the things it lets you do, but that's orthogonal to whether it's actually a pleasant syntax to program in, which comes down to personal taste[1]. likewise, i love mlish syntax, but opa, a language steeped in ml semantics, nonetheless switched to so…
Syntax benefits are not all about subjectivity. Anyone claiming this has effectively lost the plot and decided to go turtle in the discussion.