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Re:Readable Clojure by lacampbell on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:04PM (#14414398)
Higher order functions separate clojure from other languages

I don't know if that's true anymore. HoF are becoming mainstream - and rightly so.

Java, C++, Python, C#, VB.NET, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Ruby.. they all have them.

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Re:Readable Clojure by posterboy on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:41AM (#14415900)
does C's qsort count?
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Re:Readable Clojure by lacampbell on Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:48PM (#14420986)
I'd draw the line at that.

But every corporate programming language has lambdas you can pass around as data now.

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