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I found Scala to be much more similar to Java than Clojure. I guess it's a question of background. I haven't used LISP, so Clojure looks like Greek to me. Scala was much more natural for me to learn.
Clojure brings a REPL, which is a huge bonus to productivity with the JVM ecosystem.
It also brings a simple syntax (verb stuff more stuff), and some easy ways to extend and interact with libraries such as SWING.
It also brings a simple syntax (verb stuff more stuff), and some easy ways to extend and interact with libraries such as SWING.
Scala also provides a REPL
It is certainly weird how this traffic of badly informed Lispers preaching their language in unrelated language topics has increased in the last few months...
Did some people just not get Rich Hickey's memo or are they unable to drop their old Common Lisp habits?
Did some people just not get Rich Hickey's memo or are they unable to drop their old Common Lisp habits?
Working on a Scala book is probably be easier than improving the compiler, ecosystem, etc.
I hope that I don't sound lazy, but: Clojure was simply a lot less effort to get productive with.