> I need some pointers on this. This is a really crucial thing for me and > any help will be appreciated.
Here's one - better warn them not to let on what the startup is. Someone here will get it to market an order of magnitude quicker than they will on some other platform :-). On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@ocricket.com>wrote: > Hello, > > So I have been a Common Lisp user for quite sometime and at my earlier > work we managed to build a state-of-the-art Travel portal in CL with a > very small team of CL programmers. > > This was all fine except one thing. The management never really believed > in Lisp and they eventually replaced the whole Lisp team with 3x Java > programmers and are now rewriting the perfectly fine system in Java. > > That was my earlier job. > > Now I am at the moment doing a startup and I was thinking of using > Clojure because it has the best of both the worlds. It can use Java > libs, is a Lisp and is heavily geared towards concurrent programming; > making it one of the most modern and pragmatic programming languages at > the moment. > > This decision was based purely on the merit of Clojure and not because I > just wanted to do some Lisp programming. I seriously believe that > Clojure can really help us in building the kind of concurrent > application we want to build. > > But then, there is another problem. The advisors of the current startup > (who were techies in their time, but now are highly successful people in > the Silicon Valley) reacted strongly to the word "Lisp" (it apparently > brought back old memories of their AI class in college) and are not > "convinced enough" about Clojure. > > I tried explaining that Clojure runs on the JVM and thus won't have any > problem with libs or integrating with existing Java apps but they are > not happy. > > Their concerns are thus: > > 1. How do you get Clojure programmers? Lisp is not for the faint hearted. > > 2. What about the performance of Clojure? Is it fast? > > 3. People who want to use this are more academically inclined and are > not practical. This will make the whole project fail. > > I need some pointers on this. This is a really crucial thing for me and > any help will be appreciated. > > Regards, > BG > > -- > Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@ocricket.com> > oCricket.com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
