Re:Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams
by keymone on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:34AM
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Maybe it’s a problem with translation? “Limited” comes with negative connotation, as in “you can’t do as much as the other, non-limited guy”. Maybe you wanted to say “minimal” instead? s-expression based syntax is as powerful as it gets, as it allows to concisely represent any AST.
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Re:Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams
by TeMPOraL on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:09AM
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When talking about Lisp syntax, what you almost always want to say is "lisp has $most-positive-word-in-context syntax". So it's "limited" for some, "simple" for others, but the overall point is the same - no cruft and unnecessary sugar, and uniformity allows for easy programmatic transformations of code.