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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by taeric on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:21PM (#18842514)
Does it? I thought for data structures it was simply that it survived editing. That is, old versions are always accessible.
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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:30AM (#18843236)
It's an overloaded term: in some constexts it means "survives reboots" but in this context it means something else.
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