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Yup, shitty-ness is in the eye of the beholder. I wish that every time a discussion of syntax came up, we'd be as quick to make reference to Wadler's law as we are to make reference to Godwin, when Nazi's are brought into the picture.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wadlers_Law

Arguing syntax is more often then not pretty absurd, unless you are arguing how the syntax actually changes semantics (like with S-expressions and overloaded parens).



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