Re:Racket: Lisp for Learning
by sdegutis on Friday August 09, 2019 @02:08PM
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> "Clojure took some more time because I had to unlearn some habits. [...] In Clojure it's hard to do the wrong thing, compared to JS or Lua."
I've seen and even written a lot of really really awful Clojure code which technically fits the criteria for good code, on paper, but completely misses the bigger picture. (People have made the same argument for Go, that it's idiot-proof, but I've seen plenty of awful Go code too.) I'm more and more convinced that bad programmers will write bad code in any language and good programmers will write good code in any language.
I've seen and even written a lot of really really awful Clojure code which technically fits the criteria for good code, on paper, but completely misses the bigger picture. (People have made the same argument for Go, that it's idiot-proof, but I've seen plenty of awful Go code too.) I'm more and more convinced that bad programmers will write bad code in any language and good programmers will write good code in any language.