> Maybe I'm just perverse, and I bet *nobody* here will agree with me, > but > sometimes I feel "wrong" when I use a language like a Lisp, with its > symbolic and meta-everything sweet spot, to do something as brutish > and > mundane as picking apart awful binary formats and chewing through > vectors of integers and floats. It feels like ruining expensive top > shelf bourbon by pouring it in Coke :)
I do see your point (and as a bourbon enthusiast, I understand the analogy!). That's the nice thing about Clojure over other Lisps: more abstraction means more opportunity to hide these things, which at least means you can forget about the Pappy and Coke someone's drinking! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
