Re: The magic of Lisps

2019-04-30 Thread Matching Socks
We owe much of Clojure's utility and innovation to a *community* of macro writers. core.match, core.logic, clojure.test, Tellman's Manifold... You are in deep trouble if you "brute-force" your way around what Manifold does, by melding the complexity into your application space. And those lib

Re: More info on Rich Hickeys ideas on Map types from "Maybe Not"

2019-04-30 Thread Henning Sato von Rosen
Thanks again for interesting background/links! On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:58 AM Rick Moynihan wrote: > > I believe another non RDF influence for spec is this paper: > > http://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf > > The paper on derivatives is both beautiful and mind-bending, but I fa