Hi,
For us as Clojure community it is easy to see how Clojure benefits
from being a Lisp. Homoiconity, extreme conciseness, esoteric look and
feel, etc.
However it is hard to see from the inside how Clojure as ecosystem
(probably) suffer from being a Lisp. Please don't throw rotten eggs at
me, I mean only the part of Lisp that is ... parentheses.
I remember a number of people that mention parentheses as obstacles to
the wider Clojure adoption, in the Clojure space - in the Clojure
related discussions, even on this mailing list IIRC.
But the number of people thinking this way outside the Clojure groups
is even bigger! We probably don't notice it because got immune to this
famous argument "it has too many parentheses" early when diving into
Clojure.
I suggest there are a big number of people that could gain interest in
clojure if we provide them with parentheses-lite Clojure syntax. For
example we can steal Python way of intending blocks.
For example the following quicksort implementation
(defn qsort [[pivot & xs]]
(when pivot
(let [smaller #(< % pivot)]
(lazy-cat (qsort (filter smaller xs))
[pivot]
(qsort (remove smaller xs))))))
could be written as
(set! python-style-op-op true)
defn qsort [[pivot & xs]]
when pivot
let [smaller #(< % pivot)]
lazy-cat
qsort
filter smaller xs
[pivot]
qsort
remove smaller xs
What do you think?
Isn't is less complex?
P.S. Ok, I must confess, the mention of the C-Word in the last
sentence was just a desperate way to get Rich's attention.
P.P.S. Actually I would also love to see Clojure community making
video clip "Clojure - Python Style" as a remix for "G... Style", but
this idea is probably way ahead of its time.
Regards, Sergey.
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