This came up on the group recently. There was a lot of discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/c30e313ca2b0ee29#
On Dec 18, 11:55 am, IslandRick <rick.braumoel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Up until a month ago, my total Lisp experience consisted of hacking > my .emacs file to bend it to my will -- a lot. Discovering Clojure > was amazing. I immediately liked several aspects of it, especially > how compact it feels and easy it is to do complex functional tasks. > > I decided the best way to get to know Clojure is to write something in > it. So I've been doing a stock-market backtesting simulator with > Clojure in my nights & weekends. There's just one problem: I think > I'm tainted by too much exposure to OO. > > I often find my self going upstream, against the language. I want to > have an object and send it a message or invoke it, rather than > invoking a function in some package and happening to pass it the right > type of thing. An object-oriented model "feels" more natural to me, > and when I try to express that design in Clojure, I wind up doing a > lot of awkward-feeling things involving watchers and agents. > > As an experiment, I switched over to Ruby, and within 2 hours I had a > basic scaffolding up and running. Now I know being new to Clojure > means I shouldn't expect miracles, and I don't -- but it did feel like > I'm missing something. Either too many years of OO have poisoned my > brain, or I'm just using the wrong tool for the job. > > Can anyone here offer some advice to those who are too ingrained in > using an object-oriented hammer on every nail they see? I know Rich > and Stuart have some good design examples around (I've read many), but > if there are any tutorials that show how to re-envision OO problems in > an FP world, I'd love to see them. > > Thanks for the great & lively community, > Rick in Bainbridge Island, WA -- 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
