I started working on the 4Clojure problems. Functional is certainly a different way of doing things.
I follow a couple of people. Sometimes I will solve a problem with a complex solution: if, loop, recur, let, etc, etc. And then I find out one of the people I follow solved it with one line. Then sometimes the opposite happens.
I am also looking at Luminus web framework. It would be nice if the Clojure community would get behind a web framework, or if there was a default choice for beginners/people new to the language. Any time this topic comes up, there is always a lecture on how Clojure/Lisp people like to put together libraries instead of use frameworks. Ruby has other frameworks besides Rails, and plenty of libraries at various levels of abstraction. But if you ask how to make a web app in Ruby, people will point you towards tutorials, not start preaching. Sometimes I wonder if Clojure will be the Lisp that takes off, or if it will just be another Lisp that never gained escape velocity.
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