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0 pointsmahmud15y ago0 comments

The one custom macro I wrote is already in there. The rest is just the web server and cl-who.

I have been screaming for ages telling Clojurists to rip CL APIs and implement them in clojure. They're more tasteful and cultured than that entrerprisey crap that java is smearing all over this nice Lisp dialect.

The majority of open source clojure code that I have seen looks like Java FFI stubs; you need to tuck those loose ends in and tidy them up with macros. But this probably wont happen until Clojure is ported to another runtime/platform; portability is a surefire way to distill the essence of a language from its implementation detail.

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ghotli15y ago· 1 in thread

"I have been screaming for ages telling Clojurists to rip CL APIs and implement them in clojure."

Care to help? If you feel this strongly about it, surely you can contribute to the community.

mahmudOP15y ago

For the same reason that everyone who retweeted an #iranelection did not book a flight to Tehran to fight with their comrades. I have things to do, and my immediate needs to take care of: that pretty much means Common Lisp, which I depend on for my work.

My advice is just that, advice, and it's given in the hope that with our mutual situations improved, maybe we can meet for coffee somewhere down the road and kick it back.

swannodette15y ago

I won't venture to saying anything about CL libs - I don't know or use them. But clearly you don't know much about the Clojure library landscape. All the ones I use are Lisp-y and delicious.

weavejester15y ago

What's so great about the CL APIs for web applications? Could you provide some examples?

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