On: Writing Tetris in Clojure

[swannodette]

If you can write in 100 lines of C, I can write in a 100 lines of Clojure. What's your point?

[psykotic → swannodette]

I actually know and appreciate Clojure rather well. This isn't really about Clojure; I just think Tetris and similar kinds of programs are ideally suited to C and its level of abstraction.

[swannodette → psykotic]

Having written some C in my life I'm not following your line of reasoning.

[psykotic → swannodette]

Any attempt at imposing more than C-level abstraction onto a program like Tetris results in needlessly overcomplicated code that fails the 'simple and direct' test.

[swannodette → psykotic]

I don't see any such complications in the Clojure code. Your C code fails to demonstrate anything more "simple and direct".