Re: Clojure without Rich Hickey

2009-08-03 Thread Luc Prefontaine
My two cents... Given that we committed to Clojure to get our product out in production, it's something we took into account when we decided to go forward with it. After all we did not want to change the core of our product in 5 years... :))) The way Clojure dev is handled presently is for us a p

Re: Clojure without Rich Hickey

2009-08-02 Thread J Aaron Farr
On Sun 02 Aug 2009 10:24, Chouser wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Vagif Verdi wrote: >> >> Since i'm using clojure in my business i got worried at a sudden >> thought what would happen to clojure if Rich calls it a day. > ... > However, I do think the community already has sufficient >

Re: Clojure without Rich Hickey

2009-08-02 Thread Lau
Hi group, This is an interesting discussion and perhaps not a bad one to dive into up front. Currently (as I see it) all major decision making comes straight from Rich - He decides which features to implement/extend and if they go into core or not. It would probably be a good idea to move in the

Re: Clojure without Rich Hickey

2009-08-01 Thread fft1976
On Aug 1, 7:24 pm, Chouser wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Vagif Verdi wrote: > > > Since i'm using clojure in my business i got worried at a sudden > > thought what would happen to clojure if Ruch calls it a day. > > If Rich quit working on Clojure for whatever reason, it > would be a h

Re: Clojure without Rich Hickey

2009-08-01 Thread fft1976
On Aug 1, 3:22 pm, Vagif Verdi wrote: > Today i saw the > announcementhttp://groups.google.com/group/Qilang/browse_thread/thread/592773c562... > that the creator and maintainer of  another modern lisp dialect Qi > closed the shop and went to India. The guy certainly has some self-image: """ An

Re: Clojure without Rich Hickey

2009-08-01 Thread Chouser
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Vagif Verdi wrote: > > Since i'm using clojure in my business i got worried at a sudden > thought what would happen to clojure if Ruch calls it a day. If Rich quit working on Clojure for whatever reason, it would be a huge blow to the potential future of Clojure. T

Re: Clojure without Rich Hickey

2009-08-01 Thread Richard Newman
> Today i saw the announcement > http://groups.google.com/group/Qilang/browse_thread/thread/592773c562017d87 > that the creator and maintainer of another modern lisp dialect Qi > closed the shop and went to India. > The effect on Qi was so drastic that the Qi community are discussing > right now

Re: Clojure without Rich Hickey

2009-08-01 Thread Wilson MacGyver
I think the short answer is to build up clojure community so strong that in the very unlikely event this happens, clojure can survive it. On Aug 1, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Vagif Verdi wrote: > > Today i saw the announcement > http://groups.google.com/group/Qilang/browse_thread/thread/592773c562017d

Clojure without Rich Hickey

2009-08-01 Thread Vagif Verdi
Today i saw the announcement http://groups.google.com/group/Qilang/browse_thread/thread/592773c562017d87 that the creator and maintainer of another modern lisp dialect Qi closed the shop and went to India. The effect on Qi was so drastic that the Qi community are discussing right now which langua