Maybe don't switch mindset? Write code that looks like idiomatic ruby but
has what appears to rubyists as QWAN.

I think it's possible and maybe even desirable for bad things to feel more
foreign when your understanding increases.


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:01 PM, gvim <gvi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently took the plunge into learning Clojure and love it. Since I tend
> to be single-minded/all-or-nothing about these things I'm now finding it
> very difficult to switch mindset when I have to work with Ruby. Anyone else
> experienced this? If you get deeply into a programming language it alters
> the way you think and approach design/solutions which is one reason I've
> never understood the advice to try to learn many programming languages.
> With Clojure the functional/Lisp structure is so radically different and
> elegant that switching to standard OO/mutable state/infix approaches starts
> to feel alien. Maybe it's just me.
>
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