Syntax: terseness

• Use of words (begin, def...)

• Operator overloading (semantic!)

• Special terse construct

  • Perl!
    • -> optional sometimes
    • => allow removing quotes on its left
    • quoting: ' " ` q qw qq...
    • || vs or vs unless, && vs and vs if
  • list comprehension, pattern matching, case statement
  • !! Importance of good error messages

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