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Using modern Clojure's clj is so much easier than the CL procedure.

"This isn’t the case in a language like Java, where access to the outside world is mixed in with other functionality." That's why there is a SecurityManager: https://docs.oracle.co…

Not sure if it is me, but for a long time I have kept away from anything perl of moderate complexity. Package management used to be atrocious - it would be slow, pull a ton of modu…

> I hope that some derivative of perl can rise from the ashes, because I'm too stupid to write actual lisp programs, but perl allows me to emulate what I imagine lisp programmers m…

Reflection is partially emulated, IIRC.

What I'm saying is that it breaks when you do a Class.forName(...), while if such class is known to exist at compile time, it is the same as a switch statement on the class name th…

Personally, I wonder why class-loading is not possible. In the end either a class exists in the closed-world that existed when the project was compiled, or it does not. Of course y…

We are starting to do that, and for very simple operations, it works (like scripts for maintenance that we deploy remotely, and run as cron jobs). So far no big surprises, but we w…

For command-line applications, it opens up an interesting space. There was a post on HN a while ago: https://www.astrecipes.net/blog/2018/07/20/cmd-line-apps-wit... though the syst…