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Discussion on: Which mainstream programming language has the ugliest syntax?

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Dave Cridland

Well, obviously Perl. There was a long-running gag that Perl5 had ceased development because Larry Wall had run out of symbols to assign random meanings to. But that's not mainstream anymore, I suppose. Mostly because it was so ugly.

So, then; Erlang ->
is horrible ->
looks = if someone was snorting Perl ->
and sneezed;
end,

Honestly. That's an awful syntax.