The only thing more powerful than Lisp is Lisp on JVM Josh
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Devin Walters <dev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Battle-tested libraries are nice, and Java has a lot of them. Clojure > programmers can use all of them with relative ease. I recently tried > Erlang/Elixir and was disappointed in the library ecosystem. > > Another answer to why Clojure is powerful is the company it keeps. The > people who work on Clojure and its ecosystem (libraries, build tools, blog > posts, screencasts, podcasts, conferences, etc.) are a wonderful group of > people who have never ceased to amaze me. The creativity, engineering, and > generosity. In my life I've seldom been a part of such a vibrant and > inspiring community. > > I struggle to tap this into my phone without more evidence to support it, > but it seems to me that Lisps just seem to attract the right kind of > people. Take that on faith or not at all, but I struggle to find a better > explanation. The technical explanations are all well and good, but "It's > the people, stupid." seems like the best answer I can come up with. > > On Sep 4, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Tomislav Tomšić <toms...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I suspect, there are numerous possible ways to answer that question. One > can ignore it, others would care to offer superficial, "no it isn't", but I > guess, few would answer, it is because clojure is the member of the Lisp > family of programming languages. Which immediately invites predictable > question. > > > Why is Lisp so powerful? > > I guesstimate, there are three possible responses on that question. One is > to ignore it, second one is to take it as encouragement for further > inquiry, and the third one is to say something along the following lines: > “It is because of the lists, dummy. Lisp is built on lists.” > > > Very well then, why are lists so powerful? > > > Yes, there is answer(s), but as I hope we all know, every answer opens the > door for new questions and problems. In other words, we have an, hopefully > clear and self-understandable, answer to why is Lisp so powerful, but we > are now facing numerous, previously unimaginable choices and opportunities > to improve Lisp further, which is the reason why I am putting this message > here, in the group dedicated to the new and continually improving member of > Lisp programming family. > > > I hope to solve and clarify as many as I can, but it demands time and > other resources, which is why I decided to put answer(s) and reasons for > them in a book. It is called “Arrogance of Abstraction”, and it is > available through Amazon. Amazon allows, even encourages authors, to put an > effort to contact audience. In other words, it will be available for free > download from Amazon at following days this month: 2013-09-08 and > 2013-09-13. I haven't decided yet at what other days will be available for > download. If you have an advice, feel free to put it here. > > > Thank you for your patience > > Tomislav Tomsic > > -- > -- > 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. > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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