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pavelludiq on May 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are Black Boxes so Hard to Reuse? (OOPSLA ’94)

Doesn't common lisp already give you most, if not all of those things?

swannodette on May 16, 2011 [–]

Not really. Common Lisp's basic data structures are black boxes. Clojure's headed the right direction by building even the most fundamental bits (like lists) on top of protocols.

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