Re:Clojure: 1, Common Lisp: 0
by jwilliams on Monday January 19, 2009 @07:52AM
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This might be a good experiment, but the examples seem a bit flimsy to me.
For example - Whilst it may well be better from his experience, Timestamp has always been an anomaly in Java (it doesn't necessarily play nicely with Date)....
Equally I've never found browsing the filesystem that superb in Java - in fact the whole FileFilter, FilenameFilter thing can be quite clunky to use... It's one area where I've never felt more than a smidgen away from C (even moreso now with the NIO library).
So - maybe better, certainly not perfect - Either way they didn't on the weight of it seem killer arguments.
For example - Whilst it may well be better from his experience, Timestamp has always been an anomaly in Java (it doesn't necessarily play nicely with Date)....
Equally I've never found browsing the filesystem that superb in Java - in fact the whole FileFilter, FilenameFilter thing can be quite clunky to use... It's one area where I've never felt more than a smidgen away from C (even moreso now with the NIO library).
So - maybe better, certainly not perfect - Either way they didn't on the weight of it seem killer arguments.