On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:15:09 +0100
Edmund Jackson <edmundsjack...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You assume the presence of a configured web server but not a text editor ?

Actually, I did assume a text editor - provided any text editor would
do. I chose to use my favorite simple text editor (cat) here.

> The only constructive thing I can say is that the set of things that may be
> considered simple in the clojure setup above is vastly greater than the
> alternative you present.  If the cost is a 4 line 'boilerplate' (and I'm
> pointedly not going to compare that to /etc/apache/conf.d) I think its a low
> price.

The difference is that that 4 lines has to be repeated *for every
project*. Yeah, /usr/local/etc/apache/conf.d is a lot more
complicated. But I only need to do it once, and it works for every
application.

The thing is, I can write stand-alone servers with Unix tools as
well. They're a bit longer than the clojure version, but they still
require no external configuration, and just the language processor.

I mean, make is a nifty tool for doing builds, but I don't bother with
make files for single-file programs or programs that don't need to be
built. I'd be much less happy with it if it if I was required to use
it for such simple things - which seems to be where the java world is.

   <mike
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