Notices by Nisar Ahmad (nsrahmad@functional.cafe)

@simon_brooke @praetor So you will use anything that adds legibility over something that works more or less in any dialect of lisp. I rest my...

Wait, this is getting ridiculous. This was my first post on mastodon BTW. as an aside, `otherwise` is even weirder in Common Lisp, It only works in `case` and it's variants, you can't use it in `cond`.

@simon_brooke @mapcar @praetor I still use CL. Somehow its overall attitude matches my own attitude.
Like in this particular case (introducing "otherwise" or "else"), Clojure's attitude seems to be "introducing a whole symbol just for this singular purpose, Nah". while CL's attitude seems to be "One more symbol, who cares". I tend to side with CL.
But the practical reason is, I do more exploratory programming than webdev. If its the other way around, I would use clojure.