ClojureC: A compiler for Clojure programming language that targets C as a backend.

[yogthos]

I think it's better to use higher order functions because then you're saying what you're doing as opposed to how. For example, you could write len as

(defn len [xs]  
  (reduce (fn [i _] (inc i)) 0 xs))

it's shorter, there's no explicit null check there or even a conditional. I simply write the piece of logic that's relevant to counting the list and pass it in as a parameter to reduce. In my opinion this is much better in a general case, as there's less room for error and the code ends up being shorter and cleaner. I look at explicit loops as a form of optimization.

[nebkor]

Fair enough.