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So at what point of abandoning some of the fundamental ideas do you have something else entirely? I hate all this "dream" talk, it's not a dream it's been impl

So at what point of abandoning some of the fundamental ideas do you have something else entirely? I hate all this "dream" talk, it's not a dream it's been implemented. If you don't want to use it fine, but don't pretend to be taking all the good and leaving the bad. Imho having to deal with Java classes is just substituting one bad for another (or worse).

Semiapies 17y ago
Well, you can either have just "perfect" implementations of an obscure language very few people are coding in, or you can also have an implementation of a similar language that is imperfect while actually gaining mindshare for both languages. Who's more likely to bother looking at some other version of lisp, someone whose experience is C++, Perl, and Java, or someone who's used Clojure? This isn't the perfect as the enemy of the good so much as the perfect not willing to let the good be its friend.