On Apr 30, 2:06 am, Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> Perhaps a friendly merger might be possible?

I think peaceful coexistence is more likely. Clojure has certainly
ceded the backwards-compatibility ground.

There was a time (you may not remember) when I was considering either
implementing in Kawa or utilizing its infrastructure. But I also
wanted to support .Net, so I went off and reinvented a Lisp core in C#/
Java. Along the way, I turned Clojure into a functional language, and
dropped .Net.

I don't think I could get the benefits I want from Clojure if it were
just a library on a language that didn't embrace functional
programming and immutability in its core feature set. In this respect
Clojure has fundamentally diverged from CL/Scheme.

Rich
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