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sehugg
on Dec 24, 2013
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Why use Clojure?
Those posts don't tell me much about Clojure, except that Ruby wasn't fast enough and Java wasn't fun enough, and that the CTO digs Lisp. Doesn't give me concrete reasons why I couldn't do the same with Java + Netty.
lkrubner
on Dec 24, 2013
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If you want a more detailed response, I posted a longer and more technical answer in response to the recent post "Why functional programming?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6961033
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