> 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? Accessing Java from Clojure is easier & more transparent than accessing C from Common Lisp.
Joshua On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Chanwoo Yoo <chanwoo....@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
