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Agreed on the benchmarks – that's the next (and last) part on the list I'm going to do with this series. And yes, of course, at some point, constant factors break into applications…

I understand your concern, but I don't really think the problem is within Clojure people: When I started out explaining the structure to other people and that most operations have …

That's a red herring: You're asking why the majority of software is written in imperative languages instead of functional ones, which is a very complex question with very many fact…

Mori doesn't implement RRB-trees, thus doesn't support logarithmic concatenation.

Constant time in practise is a notable difference from saying constant time. I can always sort a 32-bit int array in worst case linear time using counting sort, which in theory is …

I've managed to do the opposite: Scala didn't stick, Clojure did. I guess there's some subjective reason why or why not Clojure/Scala would stick with someone. However, it's false …

And if you ask me, its just so good that we haven't needed a revision in 20 years. What about threading and/or concurrency? CLTL doesn't mention it, yet it is something which is no…

Could you elaborate on how generics makes code less safe? In my experience, the lack of generics is much more type unsafe, as you often have to do casts at runtime (and handle them…

Just for reference, a single goroutine has a 8 kb stack size. Having one million of these things in memory at once would require 8 Gb of memory. Obviously, the scheduler kicks in, …

Using val King = 13; val Queen = 12; in Scala is not equivalent with using Clojure keywords, as their printed variant will be 13 and 12, not :king and :queen. Reading debugging out…

I do agree that the structure is influenced by the paper, so I've added that in. I don't agree that they are "virtually identical" however, because there are significant difference…

Author here: I think you talk about the persistent hashmaps, not the persistent vectors. I've been looking for papers explaining Clojure's persistent collections, and Bagwell seems…

To get an even better explanation on what the word "simple" means and what it derives from, I would recommend "Simplicity Ain't Easy" by Stuart Halloway[1]. While it is very simila…

sort-by takes an optional comparator, so doing (comp - val) is a bit unneeded. Just add in > as an argument to sort-by: (->> (string/split s #"\s+") frequencies (sort-by val >) (ta…

I would like to add on to this: Generics may not be the correct solution, but I would really like a way to make collections which are general enough to be used by any datatype. As …

Well, there are some comments just about that in the "coming soon" part, and it seems that the selling point is about making multiplayer easier for you compared to Minecraft. Where…

Curiously, NTNU/NTH got a similar tradition which officially started in 1914, 8-11 years earlier[1, 2]. I wonder if these rings or the "identity crises" (the NTH-ring was designed …

I partially disagree, partially agree. In these competitions, it's about implementing a solution as fast as possible, while still get it working under the time limit (5/8 minutes).…

This is currently not possible with lein (bug/enhancement), but will be with 2.1.0. See #966[1] for details. As a workaround, any project dependent of Clojure 1.5.0 will utilize th…