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Being overly defensive about your favorite programming language is also not productive. This just one guy's opinion not some "community". No programming langua
by swannodette 15y ago
Being overly defensive about your favorite programming language is also not productive. This just one guy's opinion not some "community".
No programming language is beyond criticism (Clojure has plenty of warts), and certainly the mainstream ones are positively filled with teeth-grinding flaws - otherwise you wouldn't see such active work and interest around new programming languages.
- pavelludiq 15y agoI love most lisps I’ve had the pleasure to study. When clojure prospers, I’m happy. When individuals express such opinions clojure does not prosper, because the rest of the otherwise excellent community now has to explain that not all clojure programmers are ignorant fanboys, the same way Common Lisp programmers now have to explain that it's not a dead language that's like C++ with more parenthesis, and scheme isn't all just about teaching, and yes, there are libraries we can use. Its hard enough to use lisp, why make it harder? No lisp dialect needs to push others down in order to prosper, were better than that.
- oconnore 15y agoCriticism is cool, and even useful! "X is dead" is not.