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Worth a look if only for the link to the reddit clone in QBASIC.

One new thing to me about Clojure.

Check out this one line of Clojure code:

(if-let [user (@users email)] //do stuff

And the equivalent in most other languages:

for (e in users) { if (e.email == email_passed_in) { user = e } } if (user) { //do stuff}

foreach (user, users) { if (user.email == email) continue; // do stuff }

It's a matter of aesthetics, but you're still in a for loop. In the Clojure code you have assigned user to a variable and are out of the "loop".

Frankly, using the word "clone" is rather insulting to the Reddit developers because it suggests that their years of work (http://code.reddit.com/) amount to nothing more than a trivial programming example.

Reddit clone in 4 lines of perl: http://gist.github.com/299579

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