On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 1:51 PM Christian Seberino <cseber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, even "real" programmers can live for a long time with those > training wheels I was talking about. > As the Python guys have been proclaiming for 20+ years, performance isn't > as important as we think for many (most?) applications. > What the Python crowd does, when they're code is slower than required, is > to profile their code and maybe rewrite their bottlenecks > in C or some other optimization. > > By the time a Clojure beginner is doing the kind of hardcore concurrent > applications that Clojure is great at, he/she will > know how to use a profiler. > Not so much. Never had the need, personally. The root of all evil is the last thing I care about. I like clojure mainly for its expressiveness. It's fun and clear. That's all you need most of the time. At the point, they'll be ready (and motivated!) to learn about the > nuances of conj and friends. > > I'm open to corrections and ideas. > > cs > >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
