Thank you for sharing this Rob! I've recently gone thru a similar
process with a company and we ended up introducing both Scala and
Clojure, for different purposes, although we didn't have a large team
to convince (so I didn't need to do as much work to get the changes
accepted :)
I love the compa
Hi Shantanu,
Good questions.
> Can you share some details about the language selection process? Was it based
> on developers consensus or it was a purely management decision? Was the
> presence or absence of enough number of Clojure/Scala experts in the team
> influential on the eventual decis
> I can't speak for the original poster, but it seems like a fair
> assessment to me. Scala is, as you point out, more complicated in
> many ways than Clojure. But there is a subset of Scala that looks and
> behaves very similarly to Java. It is possible for a Java programmer
> to make the tran
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Shantanu Kumar
wrote:
> To help me understand, would you like to share how was this conclusion
> derived ("Clojure - being a Lisp dialect - has a steeper learning
> curve due to its syntax and more purely functional nature.")? Scala
> has more syntax/semantics tha
Rob, thanks for sharing this and congratulations on having IDC (your
employer IIUC) adopting an alternate JVM language. Can you share some
details about the language selection process? Was it based on
developers consensus or it was a purely management decision? Was the
presence or absence of enough
Hey guys,
This past summer I gave a presentation on JVM langauges at our
company's worldwide developer summit. I tried to get approval for
Clojure but had to settle for Scala because its syntax didn't frighten
management. I figured I'd share it in case any of the slides can be of
use elsewhere.
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