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All I'm trying to say is that switching to the prefix notation adding parenthesis does not make Java a Lisp. ;-) I'm also not sure that JVM itself is a good id

All I'm trying to say is that switching to the prefix notation adding parenthesis does not make Java a Lisp. ;-) I'm also not sure that JVM itself is a good idea, especially for serving content, but I do respect people who are trying nevertheless.)

aphyr 14y ago
Some of Riemann's code is very much like Java, especially where I interoperate with Java libraries. Other parts of the code are... definitely not Java: (defn where-partition-clauses "Given expressions like (a (else b) c (else d)), returns [[a c] [b d]]" [exprs] (map vec ((juxt remove (comp (partial mapcat rest) filter)) (fn [expr] (when (list? expr) (= 'else (first expr)))) exprs))) I wouldn't categorize Clojure as a "pure lisp"--it relies heavily on the JVM type system, for starters--but idiomatic Clojure feels closer to Lisp than Java, to me.