On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Rick Moynihan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This isn't directly Ruby related, but may be of interest to some of you. > > I am giving a talk on High Leverage programming in Clojure at the > Manchester Madlab: > > http://madlab.org.uk/content/clojure/ > > If you're a Ruby programmer, then you like playing with cool things; > and Clojure is probably the coolest general purpose language that you > can convince your boss to let you use. Like Ruby, Clojure is a hell > of a lot of fun! If you like meta-programming, DSL's and building a > language to solve your problem, you'll love Clojure! Like with Ruby, > Clojure lets you safely hide the details under the hood with little > ceremony... Oh and did I mention Clojure has all the duck-typing, > maps, filters, reduce's and inline regexes that you love... except > this time we have laziness, great performance, and fewer problems > due to unrestrained mutation. > > This talk will be introductory, but I hope to move quite quickly; giving > a good grounding in the Clojure language; its syntax semantics & > interactive development style... > > Being a Ruby programmer myself I can say that Clojure is a great > follow on language for a Ruby programmer to learn: > > 1) Clojure is a Lisp (and Lisp had Matz has frequently said that Lisp > was one of the main influences behind Ruby). > > 2) Clojure has even more capable than Ruby at meta-programming. > > 3) Clojure is terse and expressive like Ruby. > > 4) Clojure gets state right.... Making it ideal for programming > applications with a lot of concurrency. > > If there's enough interest I hope to start a regular Clojure Dojo at the > madlab. > > If you have any questions about Clojure or this event don't hesitate > to send me an email. > > R. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > >
Also saw crazy/interesting live programming demo when some of the guys at #rar10 were playing analog synths using clojure (the threading made it work, Ruby not fast enough). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
