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But Mom, I just want to be Popular

This podcast was about the way Clojure was developing. I consider that the way Rich Hickey explains it is quite simple and tries to convince the audience that this programming language and way of programming is quite good, useful and simple. In this case, he explains since the use of Lisp, and how it was really popular in the 1970s,  but as computers become more complex, could do more with less and requiring more complex programs the multiparadigm languages lost the battle.

Anyway, he tries to expose the way he and the java developers try to make a great comeback with this programming language. This is due to the fact that it got advantages and some other applications among some programming languages. In this case, I can compare this programming language with Mathematica, a programming language (that people consider software to compute math problems)  that can do as much as Clojure can, but with the limitations that you should understand the way the math works and the way the computer works. A disadvantage of this language is the way you get it (due to the fact that you need to pay for it) and the limits it gives the developer to change the way the functions work.

In comparison with Mathematica, Clojure gives the developer or common person, a  way to understand how math and the computer works within a non-abstract way of thinking: LISTS. This characteristic might be hard to understand at first and without knowledge, but as you get closer with it you can understand, change and modify anything you want. Personally, I consider that the unpopularity of this programming language in comparison with others is the marketing strategy they give it and the uses they give, in comparison with Mathematica, which also has a webpage, an app and some cool things to help kids with their math problems. Also, the way the syntaxis of Clojure gives a disadvantage, due to the way people learn math.

In the case of  Clojure with computer science,  this really got a great advantage because the way it thinks is compared with some of the basic data structures that computers follow and programmers should know and manage. Also, this language has got the possibility of changing what is already defined according to the developer (just as Linux) and you can change some of the instructions into the way you want and need,  giving the developer freedom to do some things beneath the limits.  Finally, and as we have seen in class,  the  way this programming language thinks, works and communicate with the hardware makes it easier to  understand  the way a computer thinks  and  doe the math needed for a simple command

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