Re: Clojure Truck Factor

2015-08-18 Thread Jorge Branco
Verhaegen wrote: > On 17 August 2015 at 07:25, Jorge Branco > wrote: > >> If a file has not been touched in two years, does it really > >> matter who wrote it? > > > > I think that depending on the project and the kind of file, it does make > a > > diff

Re: Clojure Truck Factor

2015-08-16 Thread Jorge Branco
> If a file has not been touched in two years, does it really matter who wrote it? I think that depending on the project and the kind of file, it does make a difference. One of the primary problems our team faced when working on a large brownfield enterprise project spanning several (distributed)

Re: Advice on introducing a Java dev to Clojure

2015-07-23 Thread Jorge Branco
I did read some of the answers on this topic but not all of them. From those I read, I feel they may not really be answering to the crux of the question: do the people you want to convince to use clojure actually care? Most software developers do software development for a living, and they couldn'

Re: Why does the following Clojure code take 10x the time the C# version does? How to improve the Clojure version?

2015-05-14 Thread Jorge Branco
I could be a bit off here, but I'd say the speed differences between Clojure and Java are actually due to immutability AND weak-typing, while in C# vs F# the difference should be less pronounced and governed primarily by the use of immutability (i.e., using mutable data-structures yield results in