On Jun 26, 2010, at 12:37 AM, rob levy wrote: >> Rich Hickey's insightful videos have caused me to stop >> writing loops whenever possible. For me this is the same >> level of "thinking-change" that happened when I moved to >> using "Structured Programming" rather than GOTO (in Fortran). >> Rich needs to write a paper called >> "Loops considered harmful" >> > > That is a great thing, I like that about both Common Lisp and Clojure. > Compare with Perl or even Python; you can use map/grep, list comprehensions > etc some of the time but not all of the time. I Lisp it's always possible to > that in a neat way I think. I know there is a loop macro in CL, which I'm > sure can cause many people to just write in some other language's idiom > instead of the native one.
You can use Perl's map/grep pretty much anywhere, though they're not as nice to use because the language is a mess (albeit more functional than Python). I, too, have found myself using fewer and fewer explicit loops as time goes on, starting with a revelation about the versatility of map while I was still living in Perlistan. I haven't used a single loop statement yet in Clojure, and I doubt I will ever do so except for performance reasons. -- 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
