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Re:Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018) by anonymoushn on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:04PM (#22755603)
Clojure seems to be a whole-program transformation away from having continuations or tail calls. It is hard to apply such whole-program transformations while using libraries.
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Re:Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018) by lmilcin on Thursday April 02, 2020 @03:43AM (#22756998)
Bothe are due to unfortunate decision to run Clojure on JVM and conform to Java calling convention.
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