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GFK_of_xmaspast on Dec 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Metabase: Why we picked Clojure

How much assembly have you done? "for"/"while"/etc are coming out of structured programming.

j-pb on Dec 3, 2015 [–]

Yes, but that in turn was inspired by the patterns and idioms in assembly that didn't fuck up your codebase.

Simple conditional forward jumps, if, simple conditional backward jumps, while, and simple conditional backward jumps depending on a variable, for.

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