I felt like I was spending a large amount of time learning a specialized system. About half the time was learning how to pose problems in a new paradigm and about half the time was dealing with language-specific idiosyncrasies. The first is necessary and good, the second was more frustrating. The manual and tutorials are quite good, it was frustrating how little resources there were otherwise - it is, for example, challenging to find a large quantity of well documented example code. Clojure doesn't have this problem.
I would feel much better about learning language-specific idiosyncrasies of a general purpose language that I'm likely to use in the future. If Clojure + core.logic can easily be adapted to solve term rewriting problems then I'd much rather spend time on it. On Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:39:35 PM UTC-5, David Nolen wrote: > > What don't you like about Maude? > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Matthew Rocklin <mrock...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> << As a disclaimer I know very little about this topic or about Clojure; >> please be kind. >> >> >> Background: >> I'm interested in implementing a small term rewriting system for a >> specific application. I'm willing to spend some time learning a new >> language/system in order to do this cleanly. I'm currently playing with the >> Maude system but am finding it restrictive. I've heard good things about >> Clojure's core.logic module and thought it might be a good case of a domain >> specific sublanguage contained within a general purpose language. >> >> Question: >> Are there examples of term rewriting systems written in Clojure? If not, >> how difficult would this be? Are there suggested ideas or directions on >> implementation? I suspect that core.logic's unification system can be >> leveraged to perform much of the work. >> >> Best, >> -Matthew Rocklin <http://matthewrocklin.com> >> >> -- >> 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
