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yellowapple on April 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elixir vs. Erlang: a question of momentum

Because it was heavily influenced by Ruby (no matter how much us Elixirists want to convince ourselves otherwise).

Alternately: what's wrong with `end`?

k__ on April 24, 2015 [–]

I tasted the syntactically significant whitespace rainbow and now all languages without it feel unnecessarily verbose :\

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