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Clojure - many Lisp implementations compiled, syntax alternativesClojure - many Lisp implementations compiled, syntax alternativesPosted Jun 8, 2009 14:24 UTC (Mon) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)In reply to: A look at two new languages: Vala and Clojure by flewellyn Parent article: A look at two new languages: Vala and Clojure
Quite true. Many Lisp-based implementations include compilers, and many can generate very nice code (especially if given some type hints). Some people are put off by Lisp's syntax ((((((lots of parens, no built-in infix)))))). If you're one of them, you might want to check out this page on making Lisps readable, in particular, sweet expressions.
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Clojure - many Lisp implementations compiled, syntax alternatives Posted Jun 8, 2009 15:30 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
Personally, I find the parens much less difficult to deal with than the soup of braces, brackets, angle-brackets, semicolons, and the like that you get with languages like C++, Java, or C#. And the fact that there is no operator precedence (because there is no infix) means that there is no precedence lossage, and I can tell at a glance which operators will be called just by their position, without having to remember precedence rules.
Granted, the parens would be hard to keep track of without a good editor like Emacs, but I find the same to be true of other languages, be they braces-and-semicolon languages like C\C++\Java\PHP\Javascript\whatever, or whitespace-significant like Python. A good editor is essential no matter what.
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