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That’s a fair description of the syntax, but Clojure is more than just syntax.
by christophilus 7y ago
That’s a fair description of the syntax, but Clojure is more than just syntax.
- swyx 7y agowhats the key piece missing for you then? because my friend was definitely very keen on the "no syntax" bit
- iLemming 7y agoREPL. homoiconicity makes "real" REPL possible. Anyone who hasn't tried Lisp would say: "a lot of other [non-lispy] languages have REPLs". But only after trying Lisp REPL you can truly experience why is it so special. It is extremely liberating to be able to evaluate any part of your [running] program, anytime, [almost] without any preceding ceremony. Even famous Jupyter Notebooks fall short in comparison.
- lispm 7y ago> It is extremely liberating to be able to evaluate any part of your [running] program, anytime, [almost] without any preceding ceremony. Sounds like Smalltalk.