Hi kamaal, it’s nice to see you interested in cl. I don’t know if you remember this but we sparred a couple of times on HN few years ago. I have been on this path before and happily settled on clojure for a few years now. I don’t know if it applies to all cls, but what nobody told me was how little I have to worry about when writing code in clojure. I stopped paying attention most of the Language and instead spend time on solving the actual problem. It is very liberating. See the talk “simple made easy” by rich hickey if you haven’t already.
Also most psychological and process incl. debugging barriers come down when using clojure
>>I don’t know if you remember this but we sparred a couple of times on HN few years ago.
Hey, I apologize if that was something that hurt you in anyway.
I discovered Lisp a few months back, I had of course heard of it long back, but kind of discovered using it only months back. I don't code in Lisp at day job or full time. But many of my problems related to understand data structures and algorithms have vanished since I started thinking of them in Lisp.
Mostly because I started to think in terms of recursion well, and other list manipulation stuff feels like it just comes to naturally. Not sure why this, or its unique to me. But for some reason I find it very easy to think and work with trees and graphs when I think of them as lists.
Yeah, most of incidental complexity vanished away once I start using clojure. Lisp is pretty cool in that there is very little to learn in way of syntax and ceremony.
If you are new to functional programming, I suggest understanding reduce well. Understanding it forms the basis of higher order functions. Also half of clojure core is implemented with reduce.
Also, I highly suggest watching the talk “simple made easy”. One hour of time spent there pays off in many many months/years
