"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is
not worth knowing." - Alan Perlis
A lot clojure's culture and philosophy is centered around Rich's talks.
I resisted this for a very long time. I'd rather spend 10 hours
reading a book than 1 hour watching someone speak. I wa
In my humble opinion, main benefits of Clojure:
- Development cycle: modifying and experimenting on a running program.
- Treating data as maps. Direct and efficient immutability.
- Macros: Though used very scarcely, it's good to know that you'll be able
to extend the language from within if you
I think someone else here could give a more detailed answer, and I will
just give it from my point of view. What I really like about Clojure,
coming from C# and JavaScript (and toying with other languages), is the
immutability, the concurrency features, the state management features, and
the concis
Thanks, I'm currently reading the book you mentioned (Joy of Clojure). Just
started on 'Types, protocols and records'...
Still doubting if I should continue learning clojure. From my point of
view, the only major advantages of the language so far, are 'clojurescript'
and the idea that I can eval
Thanks alot for all the answers,
still getting my head around the matter :)
On Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 10:41:02 AM UTC+2, Dieter Van Eessen wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've got a clojure and a python piece of code. Both seem to create what
> can be considered an instance of a class. Wherein lies t
A few years ago I built some kind of internal DSL using Clojure macros
which allowed to create objects and classes like in conventional OOP
languages as Smalltalk and Java.
The macro obj creates a classless, immutable object, for example:
(obj {:x 1, :y 2} {:f (fn [] (+ (self :x) (self :y)))})
o
It might be worth mentioning that, ultimately, python class instances are
syntactical sugar built around an internal __dict__. It gets twistier,
since classes are also instances of the base class object.
It would be tricky (though I've seen an example...maybe in Joy of Clojure?
I think the auth
Witty and instructive:
http://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent
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I think it's also important here that Clojure methods are actual Java
methods - Clojure likes to stay close to the host functionality. A map
with a function isn't a class with a method because the JVM bytecode
doesn't let you invoke it that way directly. A Clojure function is not
a method because m
A subtle difference between a map of functions and a Python class is that
the class has implicit "self" or "this". Otherwise, these are semantically
the same. Well, ignoring that Clojure maps are immutable.
In fact, C++ compilers compile methods by inserting a first "this" argument
and mangling
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