Re: Funding Clojure 2010

2009-12-17 Thread Wojciech Kaczmarek
Speaking of websites, if you're talking about Matz creation, please bear in mind it has had a less appealing website for almost 10 years... ;) So maybe let give Clojure a bit time. Of course many things Ruby community achieved are cool. Both Ruby and Rails have very good introductory tutorials & d

Re: Generalizing -> & ->>

2009-12-03 Thread Wojciech Kaczmarek
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 17:02, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: > >>> Are there any plans to add -$> to core or contrib? >> >> The rules on contrib are that the work must be original to the author. Even >> with Andrew's disclaimer that it be considered public domain, he would still >> need a contributor

Re: roll call of production use?

2009-11-23 Thread Wojciech Kaczmarek
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 00:00, Raoul Duke wrote: > hi, > > i'd be interested to hear who has successfully used clojure in > production. i know of some, as some folks have been vocal; any other > interesting-but-so-far-silent uses people'd be willing to fess up > about? > > many thanks. I use Cloj

Re: Deep deref

2009-11-23 Thread Wojciech Kaczmarek
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 22:46, Sergey Didenko wrote: > BTW I'm also coding the simple persistence for Clojure data > structures. Though I took Prevayler approach (http://prevayler.org), > so I journal function calls that change my root object. > > This approach is better than simple snapshotting w

Re: why a defn- but not a def- ?

2009-11-17 Thread Wojciech Kaczmarek
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 14:55, Albert Cardona wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Mike Hogye wrote: >> Why is there an easy way to def a private function (defn-), but no >> similarly easy way to def an arbitrary var as private? > > > The way I see it, def- would encourage gratuitous variab

Re: Hiring full-time work-at-home clojure/emacs dev

2009-10-13 Thread Wojciech Kaczmarek
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:58, Robert Stehwien wrote: > >> > >> > If you have to work Remote, why limit yourself to us only? There are >> > developers outside the states you know... >> >> Yes, but if you're pair programming (which they are), it sure helps to >> if all involved are awake at the sa

Re: Can anyone here give a comparison between Clojure and Erlang on concurrent programming?

2009-09-19 Thread Wojciech Kaczmarek
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 17:41, Stuart Sierra wrote: > > On Sep 17, 6:54 pm, dongbo wrote: >> Can any one give a comparison between Clojure and Erlang on concurrent >> programming? Hi! I'd add 2cents here as I did some hacking in Erlang and now i'm transforming lots of habits to try coding in Cl

A welcome

2009-09-17 Thread Wojciech Kaczmarek
Hi folks! I just subscribed to this list and hope we gain some hacking experience together. I walked a long way since I decided to go beyond OO: rediscovered CL, then went to ML family for a couple of years, then Haskell, and back to dynamic setting via Erlang to Lisps of today. I consider mysel