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Re:Thumbs Down for Clojure by pwncat on Friday June 26, 2009 @09:26PM (#676474)
(or (with? you lisp) (against? you lisp))

I'm kidding.

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Re:Thumbs Down for Clojure by arohner on Saturday June 27, 2009 @01:03AM (#676615)
I've been writing Clojure full time for the last few weeks, I didn't even slow down to parse that sentence. :-)
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Re:Thumbs Down for Clojure by pwncat on Saturday June 27, 2009 @08:24AM (#676808)
Same here.

I think it's a great language. As much as I value purity from an academic standpoint, I also need to eat. I'd rather see a 90%-pure Lisp that I can get a job in than a 100%-pure Lisp that I can't.

Moreover, I think Clojure will get more Lispy, rather than less, over time. In 2015, I think far fewer people will be programming in Java full-time, and the JVM will be optimized as a VM to support higher-level languages rather than to support Java as a primary language.

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