Again. I'm with you on this one, Tim. Fear not. You aren't the only crazy Clojure programmer putting the LP bug in people's ears. I must say, your work on creating a literate version of the Clojure source was really amazing. Any plans for maintaining it in the future as new Clojure releases keep rolling out?
~Gary On Thursday, August 8, 2013 12:00:26 PM UTC-4, da...@axiom-developer.org wrote: > > > I'm with you 100% on the mind-blowing greatness of literate > > programming, > > Actually, it's not the technology of literate programming I'm on about. > > Rich Hickey comes up with marvelous and insightful ideas and reduces > them to practice, like his work on reasonable big-O data structures > or his work on software transactional memory. Or his work on ... > > Yet if you look at the code you see nothing. > > Which means that the next set of people who get to slice-and-dice > the code after Rich will miss some of the insight and get it wrong. > I've seen it happen in many places. The apprentice is rarely as good > as the master. Not to cast stones at the rest of the Clojure group, > I'm just using hasty-generalization, my favorite form of reasoning, > from my experience. > > I find that literate programming is the only way to capture the > insight and keep it where it belongs, adjacent and intermixed with > the code, but written for humans-to-human communication. Clojure > is heavy with great ideas and they need to be communicated intact. > > Tim Daly > > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
