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Got it. So there’s no missing library, just more flexibility and the community embraces that. Thanks for explaining!

• mtreis86 3y ago
  Right. Instead of 4 frameworks competing, yet having mostly similar say 25 underlying functions, clojure has say 50 functions (assuming half the framework code overlaps between frameworks) as libraries that can be composed to achieve the same functionality as those frameworks, and more.
  • capableweb 3y ago
    Yeah, Clojure basically takes one of the ideas from Alan J. Perlis' "Epigrams in programming" to the next level. > 9. It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
    • stefcoetzee 3y ago
      Where generally the proverbial "one data structure" is a hash map. "Just use a map" [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc