Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure
by chris_j on Monday September 20, 2010 @11:33AM
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Would you mind explaining it further? I took it to be from the perspective of the history of programming languages. It sounds like you think that Clojure can't be regarded as an important Lisp at this time because it's only been around for a few years and it will take decades before we have enough perspective to know whether any of the ideas in Clojure will turn out to be significant. How does that sound?
This is very different to my perspective. I like Clojure for two reasons:
1) It's a Lisp (and I rather like many Lisp features)
2) It's an accessible Lisp. I found it to be easier for me to learn get stated with than Comon Lisp which I had previously tried to learn and had not gotten far with.
One consequence of 2) may be that Clojure will turn out to be rather significant, regardless of whether any of its individual features are all that great. Clojure may succeed because it is an accessible Lisp.
This is very different to my perspective. I like Clojure for two reasons:
1) It's a Lisp (and I rather like many Lisp features) 2) It's an accessible Lisp. I found it to be easier for me to learn get stated with than Comon Lisp which I had previously tried to learn and had not gotten far with.
One consequence of 2) may be that Clojure will turn out to be rather significant, regardless of whether any of its individual features are all that great. Clojure may succeed because it is an accessible Lisp.