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Re:Joxa: Lisp dialect on Erlang VM by mahmud on Monday February 20, 2012 @12:13AM (#3611391)
How does it compare to Robert Virding's LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang)?

https://github.com/rvirding/lfe

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Re:Joxa: Lisp dialect on Erlang VM by anactofgod on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @03:46PM (#3618012)
An explanation of how they are different, and why creating Joxa was necessary, from the creator of Joxa, Eric Merritt.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3610985

Full disclosure: Eric and I are co-founders of the company he references in that writeup.

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Re:Joxa: Lisp dialect on Erlang VM by semisight on Monday February 20, 2012 @12:47AM (#3611462)
Just at a quick glance, I think LFE is a Lisp-2? At least, it bears more resemblance to Common Lisp than Scheme. I don't see any 'funcall' function though, so I could be wrong.
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Re:Joxa: Lisp dialect on Erlang VM by ohyes on Monday February 20, 2012 @02:54AM (#3611692)
Erlang vm is a lisp 2.

To me this looks like a not as well developed version of LFE.

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Re:Joxa: Lisp dialect on Erlang VM by cyberlync on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @03:50PM (#3618033)
It depends on what you mean by not as well developed. If by that you mean maturity. Probably, its much newer and has just had its very first early alpha release.
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Re:Joxa: Lisp dialect on Erlang VM by mahmud on Monday February 20, 2012 @02:57AM (#3611695)
Wasn't wondering about namespace count as much as maturity/completeness.
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Re:Joxa: Lisp dialect on Erlang VM by cyberlync on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @03:49PM (#3618024)
LFE is a Lisp 2. It has ':' which is the equivalent of funcall.
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