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Re:Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python by icey on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @06:13PM (#530958)
Don't you think that's a bit disingenuous? Clojure is still changing with a fair amount of frequency. As far as I'm aware, they have not even hit a 1.0 release yet (releases are currently referred to by their release date, which tells me it's still in the pre-final stages).

It's a great language, but there is nothing to gain here by claiming it somehow is mature because Lisp is 50.

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Re:Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python by swannodette on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @06:54PM (#531015)
I suppose my point was that the principles of Lisp have lasted 50 years. Python (which is great) is the child of many, many Lisp-y ideas, but I don't think people will be using a variant of Python 32 years from now. But I would definitely bet there'll be many cool Lisp variants 50+ years from now, some of which may have taken some really good ideas from Clojure. Let's make it happen ;)
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