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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by jakebasile on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:07PM (#14248231)
Clojure has a good selection of libraries, and similarly can call into any Java library pretty easily.
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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by cutler on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:57PM (#14249451)
There's also Hy (hylang.org) which is kinda Clojure-in-Python giving you access to the Python library ecosystem.
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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by rhaps0dy on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @06:27PM (#14251210)
The only difference of using Hy instead of Python are the macros though. What can you do easily with macros that is cumbersome to do with regular Python?
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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by cutler on Thursday May 11, 2017 @09:12AM (#14315711)
Macros aside, Hy removes the single statement limitations of Python lambdas and the reliance on indentation. The fact that it's a Lisp also introduces a higher level of composability.
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