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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by jlarocco on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:43PM (#18841530)
It's debatable how innovative that was because ABCL was running on the JVM before Clojure. Clojure was definitely marketed better, though.
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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by mark_l_watson on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:18PM (#18841690)
+1 for mentioning Armed Bear Common Lisp. I usually use SBCL but ABCL is great when you need Java interop (I use it with DL4J).

I have used Clojure when requested by customers (about 18 months total) since its inception: I donated to Rich when he asked for community support because I liked the Common Lisp to Java bridge he wrote many years ago.

Clojure is a good language that has a uniform API for anything that is a sequence and I (usually) like working with immutable data.

That said, I enjoy CL and Scheme more.

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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by agumonkey on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:17AM (#18844586)
Not marketing, just a bunch of different core ideas, immutable/concurrent first. It was a lot more attractive than yet another CL port.
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