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by ekiru 5999 days ago
Efene appears to be purely(or almost so) an alternative syntax for Erlang, and includes an Efene-to-readable-Erlang translator.

Some people have internalized the syntax of Erlang, and there are certainly aspects of its syntax that I prefer to the C-style syntax(",", ";", and "." are not among that list). I don't regularly program Erlang, only very occasionally dabbling and writing a toy program in it, but every time I try to dabble, I'm frustrated a little by needing to look up again when to use which of ",;.". Efene seems intended(among other things) to eliminate that problem. On the other hand, I like Erlang's syntax for control structures and for function definitions and for tuples, which I doubt Efene preserves.