Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-05 Thread Martin DeMello
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Tim Daly wrote: > > Measure your OODA loop in all the languages you know. > See which one cycles fastest. I'd bet that's your favorite language. Excellent observation! Definitely explains why, for all its lack of performance and minor quirks, ruby is still my favo

Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-05 Thread Tim Daly
faenvie wrote: That is the most unsubstantiated, moronic piece of writing I've ever read in my life. I can't really tell what he's attacking, he's just swinging some dick-shaped sword around trying to hit stuff. i do not agree ... its clear that the article is a rant, does not go deep

Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-05 Thread Tim Daly
Steve Yegge is badly mis-informed. Large real programs have been written entirely in lisp. I am the lead developer on Axiom which is a very large lisp project (about 1 million things of code) to do computer algebra. The help system and graphics were implemented in C but browsers did not exist at

Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-05 Thread faenvie
> > That is the most unsubstantiated, moronic piece of writing I've ever read > > in my life. I can't really tell what he's attacking, he's just > > swinging some dick-shaped sword around trying to hit stuff. i do not agree ... its clear that the article is a rant, does not go deep and misses im

Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-05 Thread Randy Hudson
Here's a nice commentary by fogus on Yegge's piece: http://blog.fogus.me/2009/02/06/yegge-clojure-arc-and-lolita-or-days-of-future-past/ "For all intents and purposes, Clojure’s creator Rich Hickey is Arc’s Torvalds quipped on by Mr. Yegge. " On Aug 5, 8:08 am, faenvie wrote: > >http://steve-yeg

Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-05 Thread faenvie
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptable-lisp.html a prophetic writing ... great ! thank you mike. -- 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

Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-03 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
Fred, > That is the most unsubstantiated, moronic piece of writing I've ever read in > my life. I can't really tell what he's attacking, he's just > swinging some dick-shaped sword around trying to hit stuff. It's OK, it's alright. Naysayers will always have some issue to pick on, and when they

Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-03 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 07:28:39 -0700 (PDT) nickikt wrote: > The artical is really good for people you like to jump in headfirst. > I'm more of a book first guy but I told my, soon to be Clojure > Programmer :) , friend about that article. > > Thats why nobody likes (liked) the Lisp compunity. > Rea

Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-03 Thread nickikt
The artical is really good for people you like to jump in headfirst. I'm more of a book first guy but I told my, soon to be Clojure Programmer :) , friend about that article. Thats why nobody likes (liked) the Lisp compunity. Read the Comments http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42 On Aug 3, 4:05 pm, Fred

Re: 2 links for beginners

2010-08-03 Thread Frederick Polgardy
That is the most unsubstantiated, moronic piece of writing I've ever read in my life. I can't really tell what he's attacking, he's just swinging some dick-shaped sword around trying to hit stuff. -Fred -- Science answers questions; philosophy questions answers. On Aug 3, 2010, at 6:30 AM, fae

2 links for beginners

2010-08-03 Thread faenvie
as a beginner i found 2 links that i can recommend to others who want to step into matter: 1. mark volkmann's article about clojure: http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html this is a first class introduction to clojure and you can read through it in 2-3 days. it contains everything a ty