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I think you will find that Clojure offers many of things that you like about Racket or CL, while also getting rid of a lot of the complexity of CL (CL is not re
by hellofunk 9y ago
I think you will find that Clojure offers many of things that you like about Racket or CL, while also getting rid of a lot of the complexity of CL (CL is not really a functional language, and hardly can be considered an immutable one).
Clojurescript, which is nearly identical semantics to Clojure, also is quite a practical skill for front-end development.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> (CL is not really a functional language, and hardly can be considered an immutable one) It's important to note here though that this is a feature, not a bug. CL is a multi-paradigm and extremely pragmatic language.
- arnsholt 9y agoI usually quip that Common Lisp and Perl are basically the same language, bit with different syntax. Not quite correct, obviously, but both languages give me that same pragmatic feel where having several approaches to the same problem is considered something desirable, not a defect.
- azrazalea 9y agoperl also grabbed a lot of things from CL, like moose(their MOP, at least so I hear).
- hellofunk 9y ago> this is a feature, not a bug 1) I never said it was a bug. 2) Whether CL's multi-paradigm nature is an advantage or not is subjective.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThat's all what I meant. I read your comment as implying this is a bug; seems I was wrong.
- ScottBurson 9y agoThe FSet functional collections library [0] greatly improves CL's support for functional programming. [0] https://github.com/slburson/fset https://github.com/slburson/fset