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Java: Platform or Language?

Leading Agile

Need a Lisp /Scheme-like thing? If we remember Java is a platform, and not merely a source language, then most or all of those arguments vanish in a puff of logic. Need dynamic typing ? Use Groovy. Need functional programming ? Use Clojure. Need Ruby ? Need Python ? Use Jython. Use Kotlin.

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A Minimal Development Environment: Part Two

Leading Agile

Lisp/Scheme/Racket — recommend Emacs/Slime for Lisp/Scheme, and DrRacket for Racket. If you want to have a Lisp-like language available on this environment, I recommend Scheme with no Vim plugins added; it seemed to be the best of the three. 1] Lisp – problems with Vim plugins. [3] 3] Vim plugin seems to work. [4]