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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by deepaksurti on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:44AM (#18843285)
Vsevolod Dymokin, a known name in the CL Community, especially for his work around NLP in CL has posted a detailed article on his views about Clojure. [1]. Worth a read.

FWIW, when I worked in Clojure in it's early days, I disliked when it dropped into Java stack traces and dealing with Java exceptions made dealing with Clojure REPL not a great experience. I don't know the state of things today.

[1]: http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2011/11/clojure-complexity...

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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by harperlee on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:42AM (#18843495)
It is still far away from CL conditions, but clojure 1.10 has improved error messages A LOT through spec (a sort of optional typing system), and the plan is to improve it even better (cryptic error messages have been for some time the top issues in the yearly community feedback poll).
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