Re:Not Lisp again (2009)
by cygwin98 on Thursday March 14, 2013 @02:51PM
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Maybe you should give Clojure a try, which is a pragmatic Lisp in my opinion. You don't have to reinvent the wheel most of the time since you have access to a vast array of Java libraries.
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>Unfortunately Clojure is one of the few lisps without proper tail calls. (I love Clojure I just thought I should point this out in the context of the discussion).
Fortunately, thanks to Clojure being a Lisp, you can add it yourself:
Thank you for posting this! I wanted for a long time to see a concrete example of adding a feature to a Lisp language, I will study that code.
Re:Not Lisp again (2009)
by takeoutweight on Thursday March 14, 2013 @03:48PM
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Unfortunately Clojure is one of the few lisps without proper tail calls. (I love Clojure I just thought I should point this out in the context of the discussion).