> Myriam Abramson <mabram...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there something to do that easily? After all the syntax is not that >> much different and that's what lisp do well.
Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> writes: > I'd never say this out loud on comp.lang.lisp, but I can't think of > any CL libraries for which there is not a functionally equivalent, > more robust, better-maintained Java library. > > Yeah, Java APIs aren't Lisp APIs. Whatever. Java libraries tend to > be used by more than two people, so they have a higher likelihood of > actually working. Not to mention the fact that, despite the fact that Clojure instantly has access to all of the libraries written in other JVM languages, the number of Clojure libraries is increasing every day it seems. There is a good chance now that whatever you're looking to do in Clojure has at least been toyed with and dumped into a github repository. It seems to me that it wouldn't be that easy to have a tool to automatically port CL libraries to Clojure. Sure, they're both lisps, and a good number of the functions are the same, but it seems to me that there are just too many small differences to create a tool to convert the two with any amount of accuracy. Plus, chances are the library would be much better of taking advantage of some of the neat toys that Clojure has that other languages don't in most cases. Daniel E. Renfer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
