On Mar 22, 2009, at 11:47, stephaner wrote: > I join the crowd too,
Me too! Like many here, I have used lots of languages over time, starting with Microsoft Basic in 1982 and ranging from various Assemblers via C and Fortran to more recent high-level languages. For the last twelve years, my main language has been Python. I have toyed with various Lisps repeatedly, but always went back to something else becase of the lack of portability and library support for both Scheme and Common Lisp. I discovered Clojure by accident and decided to investigate it in detail. The features that attracted me are decent support for a functional programming style, including versatile data types that go with it, and concurrency support. I then discovered lots of other nice features and a really well thought-out overall design. The JVM has always been the aspect of Clojure that I am most ambivalent about. It is what avoids other Lisps' portability and library problems, but it is also what limits Clojure's use for me most, as the JVM startup time makes Clojure unsuitable for small quick-running scripts. There is also a serious lack of library support for my main application domain, scientific computing, but I am confident that that will change in the future. Thanks, Rich, and keep up the good work! Konrad. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
