I suspect, there are numerous possible ways to answer that question. One can ignore it, others would care to offer superficial, "no it isn't", but I guess, few would answer, it is because clojure is the member of the Lisp family of programming languages. Which immediately invites predictable question.
Why is Lisp so powerful? I guesstimate, there are three possible responses on that question. One is to ignore it, second one is to take it as encouragement for further inquiry, and the third one is to say something along the following lines: “It is because of the lists, dummy. Lisp is built on lists.” Very well then, why are lists so powerful? Yes, there is answer(s), but as I hope we all know, every answer opens the door for new questions and problems. In other words, we have an, hopefully clear and self-understandable, answer to why is Lisp so powerful, but we are now facing numerous, previously unimaginable choices and opportunities to improve Lisp further, which is the reason why I am putting this message here, in the group dedicated to the new and continually improving member of Lisp programming family. I hope to solve and clarify as many as I can, but it demands time and other resources, which is why I decided to put answer(s) and reasons for them in a book. It is called “Arrogance of Abstraction”, and it is available through Amazon. Amazon allows, even encourages authors, to put an effort to contact audience. In other words, it will be available for free download from Amazon at following days this month: 2013-09-08 and 2013-09-13. I haven't decided yet at what other days will be available for download. If you have an advice, feel free to put it here. Thank you for your patience Tomislav Tomsic -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
