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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by tymm on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:29AM (#13480004)
Can you elaborate on why you think that Clojure has a higher level of composability than a static typed language like Scala?
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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by abc_lisper on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:21PM (#13487228)
Rich Hickey(Creator of Clojure) has talked about this. Type-specific lingo prevents one from applying common patterns of transformation. Check https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by lkrubner on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:42PM (#13483719)
That is a large subject, for sure. It deserves a good essay. I'll try to write something tonight. I'll post it to my blog and I'll leave a note here.
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