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LISPs seem to me the best candidates for an alternative to the traditional text editor. I could imagine a mind-map sort of view which would allow you to expand and collapse sub-trees etc. Does anything like this exist? To me, that would be reason to experiment with something like Clojure.
So... awful and bloated Java code (with javadocs, why?!) compared to short counter-examples from Clojure. IMHO quite terrible way to compare the two…
So... awful and bloated Java code (with javadocs, why?!) compared to short counter-examples from Clojure. IMHO quite terrible way to compare the two…
LISPs seem to me the best candidates for an alternative to the traditional text editor. I could imagine a mind-map sort of view which would allow you to expand and collapse sub-trees etc. Does anything like this exist? To me, that would be reason to experiment with something like Clojure.
IMHO structure editing emphasizes the wrong part of code development. In practice collapsing graph structure is less important in code as opposed to, say, JSON. Whereas you want to be able to use your eye to hop around, and free-form alignment sometimes helps to show parallel constructs.
Remember also that in a structure editor even your comments have to be part of the code and can only be inserted in places where an expression won't change the flow of control (e.g. you can't do (if (* this is a comment*) some-condition result))
This has a great explanation of the clojure REPL. I think a lot of people hear about the REPL and think, oh my language has a REPL too, no big deal. Maybe the clojure REPL should be renamed to something else to differentiate it from other language REPLs
If you are not working for a startup, majority of the time, you will be maintaining legacy code or bug fixing. I would take easily understandable verbose code over "clever" concise code every time.
Thankfully Clojure will go nowhere beyond a few edge places. I saw a decent sized project written in Clojure script that had to be rewritten once the original authors moved on as new hires struggled to get anything done. Small features took enormous amounts of time.
Thankfully Clojure will go nowhere beyond a few edge places. I saw a decent sized project written in Clojure script that had to be rewritten once the original authors moved on as new hires struggled to get anything done. Small features took enormous amounts of time.