What Made Lisp Different (2002)

Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by PyComfy on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:08AM (#16412605)

Is it really? If we go back to the roots, lisp is made of what John McCarthy calls the Primary S-Functions which are atom, cons, car, cdr, and eq (a.k.a =). Of these five, clojure only has two (atom and eq)

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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by kbp on Monday February 19, 2018 @12:49PM (#16414348)

> Of these five, clojure only has two (atom and eq)

You can't have atom without conses (well, it would just be (lambda (x) t)); which Clojure function are you thinking of?

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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by lispm on Monday February 19, 2018 @03:17PM (#16415385)

Clojure has an ATOM function, but it does something completely different from Lisp's ATOM function.

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