I see "Arrogance of Abstraction" can be borrowed free (today only I think)
by Kindle users with Amazon prime.
On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:36:14 AM UTC-4, John Hyaduck wrote:
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> Have you made the free version available yet? I would like to read it and
> review. John Hyaduck
>
> On Wednesd
Have you made the free version available yet? I would like to read it and
review. John Hyaduck
On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 5:32:01 PM UTC-4, Tomislav Tomšić wrote:
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> I suspect, there are numerous possible ways to answer that question. One
> can ignore it, others would care to offer super
If you want to see a LISP that has been trying to improve LISP itself then
I suggest looking at... http://shenlanguage.org/ and more specifically Shen
has been ported to Java!...https://github.com/artella-coding/Shen.java
Although, it desperately needs contributions(wink,wink).
On Wednesday, S
The people is not a sufficient answer(I am sure you knew that but I had to
say it anyway). It is really simple...
1. Homoiconic syntax
2. meta programming facility(macros in the case of clojure but other LISP's
have gone farther with this than clojure has)
These two "powers" are what draws so
The only thing more powerful than Lisp is Lisp on JVM
Josh
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Devin Walters wrote:
> Battle-tested libraries are nice, and Java has a lot of them. Clojure
> programmers can use all of them with relative ease. I recently tried
> Erlang/Elixir and was disappointed in
Battle-tested libraries are nice, and Java has a lot of them. Clojure
programmers can use all of them with relative ease. I recently tried
Erlang/Elixir and was disappointed in the library ecosystem.
Another answer to why Clojure is powerful is the company it keeps. The people
who work on Cloju
I suspect, there are numerous possible ways to answer that question. One
can ignore it, others would care to offer superficial, "no it isn't", but I
guess, few would answer, it is because clojure is the member of the Lisp
family of programming languages. Which immediately invites predictable
