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True, but I am convinced that meditation can lead to awakening, which, apparently, involves the cessation of suffering and feeling one with the universe. It's not so far fetched, s…

Is thinking obsolete too?

It really is readable, to me at least. I just wanted to say that because some people will perhaps read your comment and take it as true, because they too struggle with it at the mo…

I was interested until I noticed it was pay-to-win. Instantly closed the tab.

No. I love it. It's so simple. Even if Haskell has pretty nice syntax, I found myself resenting it because I needed to remember operator precedence.

For very simple cases there are the threading macros, `->` et al., that you can use like this: (-> state (assoc :a val) (update-in [:b :c] f args) (dissoc :d) (some-other-fn args))…

Yeah, only Lisp is beautiful. ;)

Big O is not necessarily about execution time. Also, why is it ridiculous to describe execution time as "time complexity"? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_algorithms …

Branching factor 32 is great for lookups, but isn't it slower for modification? At least, one has to create more array cells in total (31 copies in each node), no?

First of all, O(g(n)) is a set. It is the set of functions f(n) such that there exists positive constants n0 and C, and C*g(n) > f(n) when n > n0. Second, talking about O(g(n)) doe…

Of course O(n) is not equal to O(n^2). O(n) is a set, and O(n^2) is a different set.

He says he understood the power of Lisp, yet he made a non-Lisp language. :P I don't get people who make non-Lisp languages.

That's your biggest concern?

Does Chicken have immutable data structures? How about typeclasses/protocols? How about literal syntax for hash maps, sets, vectors/arrays? I'm coming from Clojure, and I'm interes…

`for` is a macro, not a special form. Special forms are these: http://clojure.org/special_forms

I don't know what you mean by widespread. But work on it does not seem to be slowing down, and it is a really good language, so I think it will only grow.

There is a lot of stuff in Clojure that can be done in more than one way. I know that Python focuses on "only one way to do it", but Clojure's focus is on simplicity, as defined by…

Yeah, I know about it, but it's an additional dependency, right? [org.clojure/core.logic "0.7.5"] Whatever, Clojure is clean and simple is what I wanted to say. :)

Your comment gives the impression that Clojure is a big multiparadigm mess. But it is not. Clojure's design is clean and simple. Clojure is mostly functional. Sure, since it's a Li…

The correct statement about lower bounds is this: "In the worst case, any comparison based sorting algorithm must make Ω(n log(n)) comparisons." You are making the same mistake tha…

As far as I have understood, this is just regular memoization. I mean, often in functional languages one just turns a regular function into a memoized version by calling memoize(fu…

If you found this interesting and have not tried Clojure yet, you should really give it a go. Learning Clojure teaches a lot about programming just because it is very well-designed…

I recently watched Rich Hickey's excellent talk Simple Made Easy http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/. After watching it I have noticed that a lot of tips I've hear…

I have heard many people complain about the documentation (in fact I've seen you do it before ;)). But I think the documentation is great; concise and informative. I learned more f…

I think this book is very good. Lots of exercises and very clear. http://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Norman-L-Biggs/dp...