On 26 December 2013 16:32, Massimiliano Tomassoli <kiuhn...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you, Malcolm. I'm completely new to LISP and its dialects and I'm a
> little bit worried about the absence of support for OOP in Clojure. How do
> you decompose large systems in Clojure?
>

You write functions. To quote Alan J. Perlis:

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to
> have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
>

IMO, OOP just makes it harder to build modular systems, because OOP
involves a lot of implicit connections between components. Clojure, and
other functional languages, tend to emphasise isolation more.

- James

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