Have to say by now I am tired of clicking on a Lisp titled article and having to read about Clojure. Please stop hyping Clojure. It's not LISP and its not Lisp either. We have a Lisp, it's called Common Lisp, its perfectly fine, far superior to Clojure and will prevail Clojure by decades.
To underline how awfully skiddish Clojure is from a lispers perspective, the first thing he mentions is the "thrush macro":
http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/-%3E
Which is needlessy to say a typical example of the skiddish culture of Clojure.
The brain train goes like this: "Oh we have grown this ugly zombie breed between a ruby and a java, how to we make it look intentional? Oh that's easy just put on a little of this completely pointless macro cream to make it look hip!"
Worst: The article isn't even about Clojure. Please in the future label Clojure as what it is (an experiment in STM), and do not forget to mention that we have a great standardized language with great implementations which make the whole industry look bad. And we have that because engineers worked on it for decades.
Edit: Thank you kind power-user for going through the whole thread and downvoting every comment I made, that's the kind of cargo-cult marketing I was talking about. I think downvoting shouldn't exist, makes it unpleasant to comment on topics where you don't share the mafias opinion. Yay HN!
To underline how awfully skiddish Clojure is from a lispers perspective, the first thing he mentions is the "thrush macro": http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/-%3E Which is needlessy to say a typical example of the skiddish culture of Clojure. The brain train goes like this: "Oh we have grown this ugly zombie breed between a ruby and a java, how to we make it look intentional? Oh that's easy just put on a little of this completely pointless macro cream to make it look hip!"
Worst: The article isn't even about Clojure. Please in the future label Clojure as what it is (an experiment in STM), and do not forget to mention that we have a great standardized language with great implementations which make the whole industry look bad. And we have that because engineers worked on it for decades.
Edit: Thank you kind power-user for going through the whole thread and downvoting every comment I made, that's the kind of cargo-cult marketing I was talking about. I think downvoting shouldn't exist, makes it unpleasant to comment on topics where you don't share the mafias opinion. Yay HN!