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I did Common Lisp back in college for several years, it's a great language. But good luck getting a job with it. Clojure on the other hand, I've been paying m
by cgore 9y ago
I did Common Lisp back in college for several years, it's a great language. But good luck getting a job with it. Clojure on the other hand, I've been paying my bills with that for the last few years. The main difference is a much larger community, and therefore lots more libraries for real-world stuff, and sitting on the JVM you have a lot of options integrating with existing corporate stuff.
- agentultra 9y agoThere's a Common Lisp implementation that sits on the JVM. It's called ABCL. It provides a Java API for loading and calling Lisp code as well as a Lisp API for calling Java code (although it is quite a bit more verbose than that provided in Clojure... nothing a few macros couldn't solve if it became a nuisance). The community is what does it. I tried for years to get commercial work in Common Lisp. It never happened.