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It's debatable how innovative that was because ABCL was running on the JVM before Clojure. Clojure was definitely marketed better, though.
by jlarocco 8y ago
It's debatable how innovative that was because ABCL was running on the JVM before Clojure. Clojure was definitely marketed better, though.
- mark_l_watson 8y ago+1 for mentioning Armed Bear Common Lisp. I usually use SBCL but ABCL is great when you need Java interop (I use it with DL4J). I have used Clojure when requested by customers (about 18 months total) since its inception: I donated to Rich when he asked for community support because I liked the Common Lisp to Java bridge he wrote many years ago. Clojure is a good language that has a uniform API for anything that is a sequence and I (usually) like working with immutable data. That said, I enjoy CL and Scheme more.
- agumonkey 8y agoNot marketing, just a bunch of different core ideas, immutable/concurrent first. It was a lot more attractive than yet another CL port.