I think it is better not to say "It is a better Lisp" although it actually is in many ways. Talking about its other Concurrency features and advantages of side-effect free programming is a good way to interest the students in this world dominated by OOPs
Ajay On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:58 PM, mac <markus.gustavs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The issue that is > > particularly interesting to me to explore is how alien Clojure is to > > Java programmers, what are subjective and objective causes, and how > > hard is to overcome each of the identified issues. > > This sounds very interesting. I try to explain the point of lisp to > java programmers from time to time and I find it very difficult. When > the conversation is about clojure I usually just point out that it's > made for multi core because that's easier to understand and a good > selling point, but that really doesn't have much to do with the lisp > aspect. > > -- > 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<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >
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