I'd like to resurrect this thread, because I have the exact same requirement Laurent had and I'm hoping there's been some additional progress in this area.
I'm set to give a Clojure presentation to our company's Java developers, and I'm looking for a way to excite the audience about FP concepts in general and Clojure in particular. This audience will only care about one thing: how does this improve productivity / help do our job better? Thoughts? What convinced you? On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the "food for thought". I'm concerned with the short > introduction not being too much "goal oriented" (and more "tutorial > oriented"), I'll continue think about it in "background mode". > > Cheers, > > -- > Laurent > > 2010/4/23 cburroughs <chris.burrou...@gmail.com>: >> What I did when I needed to give a shorter talk was to base it on some >> of the well known presentations and just cut out a lot. I don't think >> Stuart's intro or Rich's "for Java people" talk assumes people are >> already enthusiastic about functional programming. >> >> [1] http://github.com/stuarthalloway/clojure-presentations/ or those >> attached to the file section >> >> On Apr 21, 8:14 am, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I've consulted a lot of already made presentations of clojure. >>> They are great, but I guess they may not suit my needs because it >>> seems to me that either: >>> * they are more 1 1/2 to 2 hours talks than 45 minutes >>> * they assume the "public" will not be relunctant to some terms like >>> "Lisp", "Functional Programming" and directly present these as >>> advantages >>> >>> My goal is to raise interest into clojure in the mind of a public of >>> people having used java for a long time. They may have Scala already >>> in their "radar", but not clojure, or may have seen it and immediately >>> dismissed it for what seemed to them good reasons (mainly aversion for >>> lisp syntax), though we all know this is not true after the "normal" >>> adaptation period. >>> >>> Say this presentation could be the presentation that leads people, at >>> its end, asking you for giving all those great other presentations >>> already available that I mentioned before ... >>> >>> Any references I missed that already solve my problem ? :-) >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> -- >>> Laurent >>> >> >> -- >> 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 > > -- > 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 -- 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
