Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp...
by pfdietz on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @07:38AM
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My comments from Reddit threads:
"I have not used Clojure professionally, but I welcome it, and applaud the effort that has gone into its creation and development. It's being used to solve real problems for real customers, and supplying jobs for those wanting to work in a Lisp family language. I also have a personal fondness for the immutable data structure work.
Is it perfect? Nothing is perfect. I'd rather focus on the wins than lament blemishes."
and
"Not all of us CL people are like that, even the language lawyers who read the standard for entertainment. :)
I find a lisp that explores a different part of design space to be inherently interesting, btw. The constraints surrounding Clojure are different from those around CL, so design choices have been different. The lessons learned when these choices collide with real world users cannot be obtained in any other way."
"I have not used Clojure professionally, but I welcome it, and applaud the effort that has gone into its creation and development. It's being used to solve real problems for real customers, and supplying jobs for those wanting to work in a Lisp family language. I also have a personal fondness for the immutable data structure work.
Is it perfect? Nothing is perfect. I'd rather focus on the wins than lament blemishes."
and
"Not all of us CL people are like that, even the language lawyers who read the standard for entertainment. :)
I find a lisp that explores a different part of design space to be inherently interesting, btw. The constraints surrounding Clojure are different from those around CL, so design choices have been different. The lessons learned when these choices collide with real world users cannot be obtained in any other way."