Hi Johanna, I don’t know if it'll work for your team, but I find Shaun Le Bron's "Interactive guide to Tetris in ClojureScript” the most succinct and beautiful way of showing power of Clojure and ClojureScript.
https://github.com/shaunlebron/t3tr0s-slides Have fun! -- Juvenn Woo Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Saturday, 11 July, 2015 at 1:24 pm, Johanna Belanger wrote: > I ended up giving him a brief description of Clojure, with stress on its > ability to do heavy lifting with very little code, and sent him a link to > Neal Ford's talk "The Curious Clojurist" > (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxLnpgnDApg). We'll see what happens. Thanks > everyone for your advice. > > On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 3:20:23 PM UTC-7, Johanna Belanger wrote: > > Hi :) > > > > I've recently broached the subject of Clojure with another dev in my > > organization, and his response was basically "What's Clojure"? and I'm not > > sure how to answer that in a way that might inspire him. "It's a > > dynamically-typed functional Lisp with persistent immutable data structures > > that runs on the JVM" doesn't seem like it will grab his interest. =) > > > > I work primarily in .NET, and he does enterprise Java. I don't know him > > well enough to know how happy he is with it. He did express interest in > > learning .Net. > > > > I came to an appreciation of Clojure through > > > > -CQRS (the power of decomplection!) > > -Sussman and Abelson's SICP class at MIT online (the power of homoiconicity > > and functions!) > > -the death of Silverlight (alternatives to Javascript in the browser?) > > > > By the time I found Rich Hickey's talks (eg Simple Made Easy) I was pretty > > well primed to love Clojure. I've been using it for little personal > > projects and prototyping for a couple of years, but I haven't put it in > > production because no one else here knows it. > > > > Could anyone tell me how they got from enterprise Java to Clojure? > > > > Thanks very much, > > Johanna > > > -- > 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 > (mailto: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 > (mailto: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 > (mailto:clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
