On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Greg wrote:
- Clojure (and some environment for working with it) must be as
"friendly" and approachable for new users as possible. It is not
an "expert's" or "professional's" language, at least in my
conception, and thinking of it that way will doom it to
irrelevancy. Our community has been extraordinarily open and
welcoming to newcomers for years, and any change in that posture
would be devastating. I (thankfully) have little fear of this
actually happening.
I hope you're right, because it seems like some people are really
gunning for this silly "comp. sci. professors-only" perspective.
It's made sillier still considering that one of the main motivations
behind Clojure was to create a practical Lisp.
Indeed, there are many nontrivial personas that actively wish for a
smaller (or at least not maximally large), more exclusive community.
It's extraordinarily helpful that Rich et al. established early on
that RTFM (or RTFSourceCode) shan't be the community's default
posture. That tension is revisited once every several months (such as
it has been the last few days), and probably will be again for years
to come depending on how much the community grows.
- Chas
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