Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)

Re:Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016) by cageface on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:38AM (#19481052)

Just about every innovative idea from Lisp, and there were quite a few of them, has been incorporated into modern programming languages. Except for sexpr syntax. Draw your own conclusions.

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Re:Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016) by kazinator on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:04AM (#19492491)

> Draw your own conclusions

My conclusion is that those languages which incorporate S-exps become identified as some kind of Lisp. This is the case even when it's a misidentification; i.e. little else is there of any Lisp "DNA" other than the parentheses.

Or else, those languages become identified as something that is not modern.

Thus, no modern, non-Lisp language has S-exps.

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Re:Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016) by lispm on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:00AM (#19481498)

sexpr syntax has incorporated into 'modern' programming languages like Clojure, LFE, Hy, ...

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Re:Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016) by TeMPOraL on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:29AM (#19481630)

Indeed. Sexps are a syntax, so incorporating them in a language means you immediately start to look like a Lisp.

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