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		thmorriss on Jan 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Tour of the Lisps the clojure loop construct is often cleaner than code written to be tail recursive

uyrifo on Jan 30, 2024 [–]

And often faster: https://medium.com/hackernoon/faster-clojure-reduce-57a10444...

Yet it’s always noted as code smell associated with “inexperienced candidates” in interviews.

For that matter, first and last too: https://medium.com/hackernoon/faster-clojure-reduce-57a10444...

The amount of paired programmers suggesting changing nths to firsts and lasts is demoralizing.

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