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i think the largest issue is that their first example is this monstrosity: zygo> x := 3; y := 5; if x + y == 8 { (println "we add up") } else { (println "w
by keymone 10y ago
i think the largest issue is that their first example is this monstrosity:
zygo> x := 3; y := 5; if x + y == 8 { (println "we add up") } else { (println "wat?" ) }
still something being lisp is not really sufficient to claim it is clojure. clojure is much more.
- Lazare 10y agoAgreed. The comment I replied to was (at the time) disputing Zygomys's status as a lisp; it's since been changed to questioning Zygomys's claim to be a Clojure-equivalent, which I quite agree with. Perhaps a better analogy would be Groovy, rather than Clojure? (Of course, Groovy isn't "cool" these days, so I guess there's not much marketing juice in comparing your new language to it...)
- vorg 10y ago> Groovy isn't "cool" these days, so I guess there's not much marketing juice in comparing your new language to it I think of Apache Groovy as being to the JVM what bash is to Linux. You could compare it to bash.
- Lazare 10y agoWell, at one time it aimed to be quite a bit more. As I recall there was a lot of envy of dynamic language in general and Ruby in particular when Groovy first got popular. There was even a Groovy on Rails framework, just to make the longing more obvious. From memory, Groovy only reinvented itself as a scripting language some years later.