Python looks like a lot less typing.
And much more readable, without the parenthesis balancing dance.
Just like English is soooo much more readable than German, because well, I don't know German :)
Clojure & Python, Side by Side
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#42I love this format. Can anyone point to more "Rosetta Stone" examples like this? (Aside from ever-prevalent "X in Coffeescript compiles to Y in Javascript")
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#43I love this format. Can anyone point to more "Rosetta Stone" examples like this? (Aside from ever-prevalent "X in Coffeescript compiles to Y in Javascript")
Matlab, R, NumPy: http://mathesaurus.sourceforge.net/
Re: Clojure & Python, Side by Side
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
And much more readable, without the parenthesis balancing dance.
Just like English is soooo much more readable than German, because well, I don't know German :)
True, but for instance I know neither Python nor Clojure, and yet Python looks more accessible on first glance - even though I have some experience with other LISPs.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
And much more readable, without the parenthesis balancing dance.
Just like English is soooo much more readable than German, because well, I don't know German :)
I found the Python more readable even though I have written programs in Clojure and never written programs in Python. In fact I'd be willing to bet that Python-like syntax would be found to be more readable than Lisp-like syntax for programmers with N years of experience in that language, if such a study could be conducted. (ie, I'd bet that an average programmer with 5 years of Python experience and nothing else can correctly read programs faster than an average programmer with 5 years of Clojure experience and nothing else (not that the latter exists)).
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#48The parentheses -- my eyes -- pain
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#49Don't you see how noisy and unreadable and clojure's code is? =)
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#50This is pretty cool. I know python well enough to hack my way around it. I'm probably missing something, but now I have to ask: what would be the point in me learning clojure?
Clojure has excellent concurrency support. Clojure has a focus on functional programming, immutable data[1] and the sequence abstraction[2]. Clojure is a Lisp and has most[3] of the super-powerful metaprogramming facilities that you would expect from a Lisp. This means you can, with enough effort, mold the language to suit your needs, even turning it into a completely different language should you wish to do so. Cloj…
Clojure is NOT a Lisp at all. It lacks one of the most essential abilities of original Lisp - recursive function definition.
Stop repeating things you don't know.^_^