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exabrialtoday at 4:53 PM4 repliesview on HN

I love the idea of clojure and perfect immutability, but holy crap I cannot grok the syntax. My C-trained brain explodes.


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barrenkotoday at 7:11 PM

It's like a light saber instead of a machine gun. Let the bullets come to you.

bederstoday at 5:08 PM

It'll take a while but now other programming languages look alien to me. Once you've adopted s-expressions it is hard to go back.

erichoceantoday at 5:23 PM

It took about two weeks for me to be able to read it.

Might as well have been Russian.

Now it's as natural as any other language.

wry_discontenttoday at 6:29 PM

You get over it really quickly once you start actually using it. I find it basically impossible to read Clojure outside the editor in any meaningful sense.