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Isn't it a little telling you're lumping CommonLisp and Clojure projects in together? These languages share parenthesis, but are extremely far apart.
by Capricorn2481 3y ago
Isn't it a little telling you're lumping CommonLisp and Clojure projects in together? These languages share parenthesis, but are extremely far apart.
- skrebbel 3y agoThey’re all Lisps, which was the question.
- Capricorn2481 3y agoThat's not what I mean. It's up for debate whether Clojure is a real Lisp, but that aside, they're farther apart in paradigms than most languages are. One is an immutable functional language running on a JVM and the other is a hodgepodge of OOP concepts and low level programming capabilities. I don't mean to say this as a dig on Lisp, but the reason you didn't just list Clojure projects or just CommonLisp projects is because we would transparently see how few have actually worked for either of them. So when you lump them together, it comes off like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel for examples, and that's not even considering how much these companies actually use Lisp or have continued using it. It's fair to say Lisp is powerful in a niche.