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Why do you think the C was easier to write?

I see what you mean and although the definition of a from-scratch transducer looks a bit ugly to me, the idea of composing existing transducers together seems rather elegant.

Though I likely haven't completely understood each of the authors gripes, each problem to me seems to have a notable solution provided by Clojure (with the exception of tail-call o…

I recommend Peter Attia's (currently unfinished) series, "The straight dope on cholesterol". He's a surgeon interested in health and fitness. http://eatingacademy.com/?s=cholestero…

Very well said. The advent of transducers in Clojure has made this 'orthogonality' especially true.

Doesn't California City have something to do with Los Angeles's water infrastructure history?

Would you care to share that story?

I've heard it said that Clojure's macro system is most similar to Common Lisp's macro system and that Racket (and Scheme) style macros are more powerful. Can anyone compare the dif…

It seems to me that Apple has had a rich history of interesting languages: Squeak, Dylan, Hypertalk, AppleScript and Swift. Those are just the ones I know of.

I recognize destructuring from Clojure. Did it origniate there? Or is this a specific case of pattern matching?

Are there any prominent applications built with REBOL or Red?

I agree "they"/"them" sounds cleaner than "he or she"/"him or her" but isn't it officially incorrect? I do like that Facebook has started using "they"/"them".

That's hilarious and terrible.

What's corrupt about FIFA? Genuinely curious as I don't really watch soccer.

Except for special occasions: no vegetable oil, no wheat, less sugar. I agree with much of the paleo, keto, weight lifting and meditation submissions on here. I would add that I th…

What were the other 3?

Here's a good video showing the difference between underscore and lodash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA

What do you mean?

Did you write your own scraper or use a library? If so, which?

Headspace is an app I've tried and thought was interesting.

What is the gun?

I find I have the same problem explaining computer technologies to people.