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Re:Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000) by kaba0 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:22PM (#26728825)
> Having more powerful ways to express yourself doesn't make it harder to read code

Well, depends. For example, reading my older Haskell code is definitely harder than my Java code. Also, only a handful of teams is lucky enough to have only good programmers. There is always someone who sees some great advanced concept and applies it without the necessary know-how on the dangers/context of that feature. I think Haskell, Clojure and Scala as well are somewhat prone to this.

Re:Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000) by Viliam1234 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:01PM (#26732675)
Given the choice between undocumented Java code and undocumented Clojure code... I'd rather take my chances with Java.