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Re:Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000) by ccortes on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:06AM (#26721730)
My experience has been the same. I do enjoy clojure very much but I've spent hours and even days just searching for examples on how to do X or Y and most of the sources are not beginner friendly at all.

If it wasn't because of my huge desire to use datomic I think I'd switch to some other language. On the plus side I've learned a lot.

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Re:Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000) by cabite on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:05AM (#26722644)
As an advanced Clojure programmer I never look for examples on the web, which is not the case for other languages.

The reason behind this is that since Clojure is data-oriented, API interfaces are clear, minimal and self-documenting. With object orientation or anything that relies on datatypes, I always end up browsing docs looking for what's possible to do with the given list of methods. Never in Clojure.

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Re:Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000) by ccortes on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @03:08PM (#26811636)
I didn't look for examples on how to code something, I looked for examples on how to engineer the code I wrote. Clojure just assumes you have the engineering knowledge and that you'll be able to figure on your own how to glue everything toghether and this exactly where I had the most trouble.
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