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I've been programming professionally for about 8 years, and I'm self-taught. To be honest, I've found that my degree carrying co-workers fall way short in the basics. Perhaps it's …

+1, I've seen this idea before, and I think it's horrible. It's a ton of boilerplate crap that doesn't seem to solve any real-world problem.

just use hash maps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0

The problem with ClojureCLR is not the platform (that's 100% the same as Clojure on JVM) it's the tooling and lack of libs. So instead of using DataOutputStream, you have to use Bi…

We're taking the same approach as ClojureCLR and ClojureScript in clojure-py. As much as possible implement things exactly the way Clojure does.

This is very correct. We compile Clojure code to Python bytecode. Clojure functions become python functions, clojure deftypes are Python classes, Clojure namespaces are Python modu…

Mostly because we have to have these collections inside the compiler. So it's a bit hard to write collections in a language that has no compiler. Chicken/egg issue..

You can, but I think you'd run into the same issues mentioned here: http://clojure-py.blogspot.com/2012/02/ive-been-asked-many-t... Basically it reflection (aka dynamic dispatch) i…

PyClojure (in the link) didn't actually take it to the extent we are. clojure-py goes so far as to implement all the standard collections in pure python. So [1 2 3] in clojure-py i…

Here's a blog post explaining the issues involved in a bit more detail: http://clojure-py.blogspot.com/

I agree, if you're into Python, use python. However, I find things like macros, protocols, and multimethods drastically reduce the amount of coding that has to be done to accomplis…

Those numbers a re bit small to get a full view of the way the pypy jit works: user=> (time (reduce1 + (range 100000))) Elapsed time: 903.011083603 msecs 4999950000 user=> (time (r…

First of all, it should be mentioned, that this is not an abstraction layer. Clojure-py functions are actual Python functions (not classes as they are on the JVM). This means that …

This is not true at all. PyPy implements a tracing jit that compiles specific loops for each set of types run through the interpreter. This means it is actually possible to have Py…

There's absolutely nothing stopping us from implementing atoms, refs, and agents on clojure-py. Sure, the GIL won't help at all, but PyPy is working hard to fix that.