On Feb 9, 6:48 pm, Bojan Jovicic <bojan.jovi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > what are in your opinion 3 biggest advantages that Clojure and > functional languages have over .NET, with focus on LINQ?
.NET is not a language, it's a runtime with explicit multi-language support. There's even a clojure implementation that runs on .NET. There's also F#, which is Microsoft's functional language for .NET. The JVM and .NET runtimes both support loads of languages. There are several other multi-language runtimes in the works at the moment. AFAICS "serious" hosted languages are all moving towards a split between langugage and runtime. Comparing languages to runtimes is not very useful at this point in time and the question will probably become even more pointless in the future. Never heard of LINQ until you mentioned it, but it appears to be a general data querying library. That sort of thing is generally implemented as on top of a language/runtime. Clojure/Java doesn't currently have something like that as far as I know, (unless you count JDBC and the Clojure-specific layers on top of it like the interesting ClojureQL), though I may be wrong - there is a stupendous amount of Java libraries and frameworks out there and most work with Clojure if need be. > E.g. I thought of set functions, but this is supported in LINQ. Clojure has sets and related functions in the core language, ClojureQL implements sets in a way that might be closer to what you're thinking about. -- 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
