
Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure
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Syntactic Extensibility Is Important for Programming
The ability to plug it in into the transformation or compilation process that's and make it kind of seamless by that is important. Right, so that, that enables a feature called, you know, syntactic extensibility. And that's a powerful thing,. We don't want to keep writing the same things over and over again, we want to write them once and reuse them. So what I wanted to do was make a list that retained what was powerful about lists, but address the island problem. Yeah.
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