Re: Native Clojure

2010-12-20 Thread kaveh_shahbazian
I understand hosting on a VM has it's own (huge) advantages: GC, libraries, proved practices and vast amount of research and community effort already available; no doubt on that part. It is just having a mature and well designed cross-platform natively compiled language (other than C and C++) has

Native Clojure

2010-12-19 Thread kaveh_shahbazian
Is there a natively compiled version of Clojure? Is there any plans to do so? Thanks -- 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

Re: Fixing Lisp

2009-12-24 Thread kaveh_shahbazian
Thanks to all! I think I should use another (more fun or irrelevant - based on one's eye-line!) example for custom "form separators"; something like this: (switch (choice) {my-choice (having-fun) } {(your-choice) (being-pragmatic) } {(their-choice) (lisp

Fixing Lisp

2009-12-24 Thread kaveh_shahbazian
Well; this is a fun tradition after all and number of participants is huge! (All failed of-course :) ) Is short idea is: Having the choice of custom separators. This has been done in Clojure to some extend for Vectors and Sets. What if we could choose a custom separator in out macros? For example

Re: Clojure as a 1st language for experienced developer

2009-12-13 Thread kaveh_shahbazian
Thanks to all! I think I should emphasis on some titles; with help of replies I have read and learned about some topics. 1 - I understand that open source world is very wide and it is not all about Java. My question is should I be a good Java developer before starting programming in Clojure? Or c

Clojure as a 1st language for experienced developer

2009-12-13 Thread kaveh_shahbazian
I am a C# developer, writing ASP.NET, Windows Applications, managed libraries for 7 years by now. And before that I had done some C/C++. I have never - well; almost never - stepped out of Microsoft world (out of Visual Studio actually) for any big projects and I am not so fluent in things like auto