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Wow, that sounds insane. I'm really going to have to spend more time diving into clojure. Or is this a normal feature of most lisp variants?

• gruseom 17y ago
  is this a normal feature of most lisp variants? Yes.
  • jrockway 17y ago
    And indeed, most programming languages.
    • jrockway 17y ago
      I am serious about this. I get this exact functionality with Perl, and I'm sure it's possible in Python and Ruby just as easily. Depending on where you want to draw the line, you can do this in Haskell (see xmonad and yi, for example), and even in C. I like Lisp, but this is not particularly amazing.
• kyleburton 17y ago
  Yes, in fact most common lisps support quite a bit more run-time features than Clojure does - like saving and restarting the image, conditions, etc. I found the uncommon-web screen casts to be very inspirational.
  • mark_h 17y ago
    uncommon web was fantastic -- I haven't looked at it for a while, but the mailing list (which I'm subscribed to but no longer read) isn't too active. There do seem to be a few people still using and developing it though. An approach like that for clojure would be a great thing IMO; that is, something different from the normal web framework approach, while exploiting the strengths of the clojure language and JVM ecosystem.
  • radu_floricica 17y ago
    Same here with the casts, but actually making it work turned out to be quite a challenge. Weblocks looked a lot better, but it was still in development at the time. Since then I switched to clojure completely.