Hello. Yesterday, I talked with a representative of a publisher about a translation of Lisp books. There are books about Ruby, Lua, Erlang, and Groovy in South Korea, but there is no book about Lisp except SICP. So he is considering printing the first Lisp book in South Korea. We talked about 'Programming Clojure', 'ANSI Common Lisp', and 'Practical Common Lisp'. I told him that I slightly prefered 'Programming Clojure' to others because of Clojure's support for concurrency and java interoperability. I said that the strong points of Clojure would make programmers of main stream languages have interests in Lisp. And he asked me questions like follows.
1. Has Clojure become stable? He is afraid that the publishing of 'Programming Clojure' would be meaningless if Clojure take significant changes after the publishing. We know it will change. But the degree is the matter. 2. Could I get any benchmarking data about the performance of Clojure and Java? I read that Clojure can generate code as fast as Java in 'Programming Clojure'. But he worries whether Clojure is slow like Groovy. Could I get data about performance comparisons between Clojure and Java on several algorithms? 3. Clojure can use Java libraries. Common Lisp can use C/C++ libraries. Is it possible to say Clojure has strong points to Common Lisp in the power of libraries? All these questions are not easy to answer for me. I think I should give him the object information. So I hope that I get opinions from the community. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
