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41: Clojure pre-history with Chris Houser

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Maccrowes - The Biggest Danger to Libraries?

Closures as a community has been very judicious. But i feel like things could have turned out quite differentla, quite easily. The only code that's going to use the macros are being maintained by the same team that's writing the macros. So i think that just reduces risk to a lot of weird patterns. I like macros and other things as well, but for libraries yet, i think you're right. And i still find places, h libraries that use macros a little bit more than necessaryan that's not a big problem except when you're trying to do some sort of at run time.

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