Re: Road to Clojure Survey

On Feb 9, 11:30 pm, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In 25 words or less, why is Clojure better than Common Lisp?

Seqs partake of some of the awesomeness of SERIES, but are easier to
use and more native to functional programming.

In 100 words or less, why is Clojure better than Common Lisp?

As a hobbyist and a student of programming languages, I enjoy using a
language that's new and changing all the time. I like that Rich
Hickey is actively involved in his language, intelligent, open-minded,
well-read, understands the balance between ideals and practicality,
and is not afraid to make big changes. I also think that functional
programming will eventually be proven more scalable for programmers
and easier to parallelize, so I'd like to practice using it now with a
Lisp, regardless of whether Clojure itself solves any practical
parallelization problems.

Have you switched to Clojure? If so, from what?

I don't "switch to" a language, I try it out and determine for what
tasks it's suited. I use a lot of different languages in my work (C,
Fortran 9x, Python, Matlab, CL, Clojure) and enjoy many of them for
various reasons.

mfh
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