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Forgive me. The term 'hygenic macro' has historically been associated with Lisp and Scheme which were not known for the availability of type information at comp

Forgive me. The term 'hygenic macro' has historically been associated with Lisp and Scheme which were not known for the availability of type information at compile time, because they are dynamically typed and often did not have a compile time.

TylerE 13y ago
Fair enough. Clojure really is a wonderful language. It's sort of a "Javascript: The Good Parts" for Lisp - they kept (and expanded on) that wonderful expressiveness, while doing away with 50 years of dogma that held on to stuff like gen-syms, car, cdr, and singly-linked lists as the one-true-datatype.
- marshray 13y ago
  It's the only language right now that makes me wish I weren't so allergic to the JVM.
  - TylerE 13y ago
    It's really not so bad. At least for simple-medium sized projects you can basically ignore the JVM. The leiningen build tool means you never have to tough maven/ivy/ant/etc
    - marshray 13y ago
      Maven. [shudder] We must speak of this evil no more in public.