glv/sort-without-threading-macro.clj

Created October 17, 2013 16:18

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Avdi Grimm praised the symmetry of the Clojure version of line sorting (http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/10/16/sorting-lines-in-5-languages/). I thought it would be instructive to show how a more traditional Lispy version, without Clojure's ->> macro, obscures that symmetry.

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sort-without-threading-macro.clj

	(spit (nth command-line-args 2)
	(clojure.string/join "\n"
	(sort (clojure.string/split-lines (slurp (nth command-line-args 1))))))

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