The Downfall of Imperative Programming

[bearophile]

Russel Winder:

> On the JVM the interesting question is whether Clojure finally 
> makes Lisp a mainstream language outside of one or two domains.

Clojure contains some interesting programming language design 
ideas.
I have written enough Scheme that now I am sure I don't like to 
write S-expressions. S-expressions are a puzzle-way to write 
expressions, and I'd like to avoid solving micro-puzzles all the 
time.
I've seen that idiomatic Clojure code is too much slow for my 
purposes (there are ways to speed up Clojure code, but only 
partially and the result doesn't look good). Regarding 
parallelism in Clojure, I am seeing single-core C/D code faster 
than idiomatic Clojure running on 4 or 8 cores. I have not done 
enough experiments, so those are just anecdotes.

Bye,
bearophile