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Re:Metabase: Why we picked Clojure by incepted on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @05:47PM (#10666450)
> But when I work in java, i miss the REPL much more,

Both IDEA and Eclipse have had a REPL for a decade, not sure what exactly you were missing(?).

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Re:Metabase: Why we picked Clojure by a-saleh on Thursday December 03, 2015 @02:37AM (#10668327)
I missed mostly three things:

1. simple data definition. Clojure has EDN, python has nice syntax as well, and javascript has json.

2. pretty print

3. succinct function definition/execution, and standard array of functional tooling (map, filter, reduce, etc)

Maybe the 3rd thing did get better with Java 8?

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