Make them watch the following video.

http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61

Although the video isn't about Clojure, I think most of the points regarding
ML are true of Clojure as well.



On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Timothy Pratley
<timothyprat...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > 1. How do you get Clojure programmers? Lisp is not for the faint hearted.
>
> Clojure is extremely easy to learn compared to 'Lisp':
> You get collection based functions that apply other functions map/
> reduce/filter
> You get simple powerful data structures hashmaps sets vectors lists
> You get atomic, thread safe mutables
> You can write Java without all the crud.
>
>
> > 2. What about the performance of Clojure? Is it fast?
>
> Its not the fastest. But I've written much slower C code because
> searching an array linearly is easier than 'doing it right' and I have
> a deadline. I'd say with a sensible language you actually have time to
> focus on performance. With the 'fastest' language sometimes I'm just
> fighting to make things work.
>
>
> > 3. People who want to use this are more academically inclined and are
> > not practical. This will make the whole project fail.
>
> Rich is not an academic
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Hickey
> He wrote Clojure as a better way of developing, and it is!
>
>
> >
>

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