On: Interview with Andy Hunt, Coauthor of the Pragmati...

[ams6110]

Did you come to Elixr from Ruby or Erlang? Or neither?

I learned a bit of Erlang first, and never really found a taste for Elixir's syntax. Can't say that I've really used it beyond tinkering though.

[digitalzombie → ams6110]

Elixir's syntax is much easier compare to Erlang's prolog inspired syntax.

I think anybody coming from any C inspired language would take Elixir over Erlang imo. Sure Erlang is a small language but the hump is much higher to get over the syntax than in Elixir.

[mhsdef → ams6110]

Neither. My background was all C family until I read PragProg and then stumbled over Elixir in a search for another language for edification.