<div dir="ltr">"What Loïc said".<div>I mean, people have been arguing about Syntax since lord knows when, and its never going to stop.</div><div>e.g., Why does Loïc have that stupid "two dots" thing on his name anyhow? Whats wrong with a good old "i"? The french are sooo <insert gratuitous insult here>.</div>
<div><a href="http://dieswaytoofast.blogspot.com/2013/12/syntax-why-so-caremad.html?q=syntax">Syntax is not semantics</a> - this is a pretty hard lesson to learn (not so strangely enough, people that speak more than one language tend to freak out less about this).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Loïc Hoguin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:essen@ninenines.eu" target="_blank">essen@ninenines.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I mean what.<div class=""><br>
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On 06/20/2014 02:54 PM, Leonard Boyce wrote:<br>
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2) "What the hell is with the crazy 'defacto' indentation. I don't use<br>
or want to learn to use emacs, I'm perfectly happy with Sublime."<br>
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Why the hell are they not using Sublime? What's this 'defacto' indentation thing you mention? Most people write Erlang in their favorite editor. I use vim without any plugins myself.<div class=""><br>
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3) "TDD is extremely painful. What should I be writing tests for?"<br>
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If it's painful then they're not doing it right. They should write tests for exactly the things they test manually. Doesn't need to be more than that at the beginning, tests can get added over time.<div class="">
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5) "No unicode aware/safe string library? wtf? Lists of integers?<br>
Binaries? Why in deities name does it have to be so convoluted?"<br>
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I'm not sure why they would say that. It's not like JS has good Unicode support either. Erlang has a number of ICU bindings available if you do need Unicode though.<div class=""><br>
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7) "Dialyzer is dog slow"<br>
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Is it? Are they rebuilding the PLT all the time? It never takes more than 10s to dialyze for me on the bigger projects (usually < 2s though). Much faster than running tests (especially running tests by hand if that's what they'd prefer doing).<div class="">
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8) "What's up with the documentation organization? Why do I have to<br>
use google to be able to find anything in the official docs?<br>
Navigating the docs is crazy, I feel like it's still 1998"<br>
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???<br>
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<a href="http://www.erlang.org/erldoc" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/erldoc</a><br>
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It sounds a lot like you/they're making their life harder than it should be.<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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-- <br>
Loïc Hoguin<br>
<a href="http://ninenines.eu" target="_blank">http://ninenines.eu</a><br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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