2013/8/13 Christian Sperandio <christian.speran...@gmail.com> > Even if I think the current syntax is one of the best, could you say what > Clojure's capability couldn't be done with another syntax? > They could, Elixir is a good recent example. However, it's a very tricky thing to get right, while s-expressions have been around for over 50 years (literally) and known to work.
> Other languages implement FP without lisp syntax and the macros could be > done in another way, perhaps with AST (like in groovy). > That's not "another way", that's largely the same way, just requiring a lot of extra work from language developers. -- MK http://github.com/michaelklishin http://twitter.com/michaelklishin -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
