Which can be done just as well in lisps. The whole point was to show it in a way that didn't confuse the Java devs. ;Clojure example (defn get-from-list [list

Which can be done just as well in lisps. The whole point was to show it in a way that didn't confuse the Java devs. ;Clojure example (defn get-from-list [list pred] (reduce #(if (pred %1 %2) %1 %2) list))