Clojure: Yes we can ! :-)

Thank you Rich for showing the world there is still hope to get together the
most of several worlds !

Finally, an appealing wedding of Lisp and JVM !

The Lisp of the century is born, long live to Clojure !

-- 
Laurent

2009/3/21 Adrian Cuthbertson <adrian.cuthbert...@gmail.com>

>
> I wrote my first program in Fortran in 1975. Since then I've worked in
> Assember, Jcl, Rexx, Lisp 370, C, C++, VB (the low-light of my
> career), and a host of scripting/macro tools. I started with Java in
> 1998 and my own business in 2002 (web apps and backends with
> Java/Jsp/Js). I became disillusioned with Java in 2006 and embarked on
> trying to find a new platform that would take my business into the
> future with dramatically improved development productivites. I
> explored and tried D, perl, python, C again (a back to basics moment),
> Ruby, SISC, CL, Haskell, CAML, Erlang. None of these met my
> (admittedly lofty) ambitions. The I found Scala. Mabye this would be
> it. It would integrate with my Java legacy stuff, had good functional
> and looked like the NBT. After 6 month's of learning/dabbling I
> started using it in business. Then a reasonably complex application, a
> real deadline and Scala's type system made me want to throw it all out
> and go back to C again.
>
> And then I found Clojure.
>
> That was 6 months ago. My quest for the grail has been fulfilled.
>
> Thank you, thank you, Rich.
>
> And the great community.
>
> However long I've got left as a programmer, I can now just get on and
> do those many, many things I've always wanted to do but been
> perpetually frustrated by the (in-)capabilities of the language I've
> been working in. At last.
>
> Adrian.
>
> >
>

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