Re: Road to Clojure Survey

André Thieme wrote:
Scott Burson schrieb:
On Feb 18, 9:21 am, "Mark H." <mark.hoem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

One more time, I can't resist... ;-}

http://common-lisp.net/project/fset/

Yes, not bad.
But I doubt someone could use this after having used Clojure.
It misses the nice reader macros.
It does not plug in into CL. For example one has to use image
instead of mapcar.

That's an empty statement. Clojure also doesn't "plug in" into Java.


Pascal

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