It's worth pointing out that the tools Clojure is built on (chiefly Java) are themselves the products of companies. If Sun hadn't stayed behind Java, we'd probably still be coding Java in a C ecosystem, rather than Clojure in a Java ecosystem.
Sun of course was a huge company....but that doesn't stop anyone from trying a Kickstarter for Clojure. The model might be a bit like Flash: sell a great development tool, and put it in the middle of a curated, complete, and documented set of libraries. A single, coherent environment for creating web apps all the way from database to browser would be delightful (and unprecedented). On Sep 5, 4:02 pm, Brian Marick <mar...@exampler.com> wrote: > On Sep 5, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Simone Mosciatti wrote: > > > I would say raise money to help people improve their project (documentation > > is a very important part that). > > Many people who are good at writing code are not good at writing > documentation. Writing good explanations is hard, even if you have a knack > for it. It's not something J. Random Superprogrammer can just automatically > do by virtue of his enormous brain. > > If money is to be spent, it would be better spent on people other than the > developers, people who *don't* know the project (because the troubles they > have learning it will inform their documentation), are quick studies, and are > skilled explainers. > > ----- > Brian Marick, Artisanal Labrador > Contract programming in Ruby and Clojure > Occasional consulting on Agile > Writing /Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented > Programmer/:https://leanpub.com/fp-oo -- 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
