So many clojure implimentations?

2013-06-02 Thread Zed Becker
Hi all, Within last two years, many alternate clojure implementations have come up, which embrace python, javascript, lua, C, and more recently ruby. Common lisp also commited the same mistake back in the past. So many common lisp implementations exist like SBCL, ABCL, lispworks etc. which cause

Why the CLR languages fail?

2013-06-05 Thread Zed Becker
Why do the languages running on the CLR (ironRuby, ironPython, ironScheme, ScalaCLR) do not get to live long enough in the sunshine, whereas same languages get embraced by the Java runtime, and live in the limelight? Chas did a survey in 2012, which gave very negative results for clojureCLR, w