I have started looking at Clojure. I think it can handle concurrency well, I think functional programming will become more important, and I think all roads lead to Lisp.
I started out by looking at some of the short introductions and tutorials on the Clojure subreddit.
Lisp variants actually have less punctuation than other languages, yet they can still be a bit hard to get used to.
I had a bit of enlightenment about anonymous functions. I could not see where they would be used. One of the tutorials said you would use then when you need a function that you might use only once.
Then I noticed that the tutorials seemed to use them as arguments to the “collection functions”, like map, reduce, filter, remove, split-with. Those functions take a function and a collection as arguments. I noticed that those functions were a common place to use anonymous functions.
You’re welcome.
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