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Comment by gtani | Hacker News Reader

    Every second or third serious Lisp hacker will roll his   
    own implementation of lazy evaluation, functional purity, arrows, 
    pattern matching, type inferencing, and the rest.

Seems to describe clojure pretty well, tho I don't know about arrows, i haven't gotten that far into categ theory vs. real world implementations

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I tend to disagree. Unified solutions exist on the level of the core language and libs for both lazy evaluation and (pragmatic) functional purity, and the recent discussion around logic programming and pattern dispatch implementation is a beautiful example of how some really smart people are working together towards a common solution, instead of everyone rolling their own.

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