Ongoing · Concur.next — Eleven Theses on Clojure

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One of the inventors of XML has a hard time reading s-expressions. Okay.

It is a very good writeup. I like his point that Clojure sets a high bar for concurrency features. His dislike of Lisp is my only disagreement.

I think he's going to get a lot of grief for that (his Lisp hating) here, but it's hard to disagree with "most people (will) struggle with it".

I think the point is that most people will just tell him (me, also) to suck it up and learn it anyway.

Fairs fair.

I thought the point was that readability is important. There's a difference between one's willingness and ability to learn a new language and read code written in it and what is a good idea to foist upon the many others who will read, extend, and maintain that code.

If you are building a system that you can't develop and maintain by yourself, you have to think about what other people will "struggle with".

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