Re:The Idea of Lisp
by lispm on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:41PM
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> all Clojure programs use a standard API call to do that.
Clojure says nothing about creating TCP sockets, since Clojure implementations (all three) need to call the hosting systems call or emulate it somehow. The JVM Clojure uses a different call than the CLR Clojure.
Which makes it worse than Common Lisp, which has widely used socket support with usocket and some others.
> Common Lisp, on the other hand
Is a real language standard with many different implementations.
> It relies entirely on (poorly documented, often unmaintained) third party libraries to do that.
Each Common Lisp implementation has a documented and maintained way to open a TCP socket. Additionally there are compatibility layers like usocket
Clojure says nothing about creating TCP sockets, since Clojure implementations (all three) need to call the hosting systems call or emulate it somehow. The JVM Clojure uses a different call than the CLR Clojure.
Which makes it worse than Common Lisp, which has widely used socket support with usocket and some others.
> Common Lisp, on the other hand
Is a real language standard with many different implementations.
> It relies entirely on (poorly documented, often unmaintained) third party libraries to do that.
Each Common Lisp implementation has a documented and maintained way to open a TCP socket. Additionally there are compatibility layers like usocket
https://common-lisp.net/project/usocket/
> I am well aware of the history of ANSI CL,
Then why are you writing obviously wrong things?