Re: Advice on introducing a Java dev to Clojure

2015-07-10 Thread Johanna Belanger
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" . We'll see what happens. Thanks everyone for your advice. On

Re: Advice on introducing a Java dev to Clojure

2015-07-10 Thread Johanna Belanger
Interesting opinion, I'll think that over. Thank you! On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 10:36:36 PM UTC-7, Erik Assum wrote: > > If you're a one-person team, don't be too worried. Your Clojure code will > likely not be too big, so it will be fairly easy to understand and possibly > rewrite to Java,

Re: How can I write a string into Redis such that a Java app might see its contents as a primitive string?

2015-07-10 Thread gingersafflower
Hmm, well, I am grateful to you for running such a detailed test, and I should have tested this myself: >The actual bytes stored at the "test" key are 0x61 0x22 0x62 However, something in our code fails when the quote marks are escaped, but everything works the way we expect when the quote ma