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Clojure

java with a lisp
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A pretty nice Programming Language created by Rich Hickey.

Is at the same time great (partly because of its communities’ focus on simplicity, elegance, and so on) and really painful to use—because they’re just not able to consistently follow through with it.

Some examples:

  • They know that Coupling is bad, and regularly point it out – but somehow aren’t able to see where they’re introducing it unnecessarily. Example: You can have only one namespace per file, the namespace name must align with the file location in the project tree, and namespace and file name must follow different styles: main/this_app.clj becomes (ns main.this-app). Please, what?
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Writing in here is haphazardous, disjointed and sketchy.

It's probably a good idea to come back later.

Definitely one of the Programming Language communities that’s prone to [[]]