> Getting things done is cool.
Yup. I've been programming for 30+ years and I've gotten too old and
too cranky to tolerate a lot of bullsh*t, high ceremony, and wheel
reinvention.
I had high hopes for Paul Graham's Arc, but his goals are more
rarified. So despite my great respect for his ideas,
> Lisp is cool. Having a language
> that's like lisp and has access to all of Java, but has more libs than
> lisp and that's more dynamic than java is *way* cool.
>
> --Chouser
To which I can only add: And having a language that also handles side-
effects and thread interaction well is *extremel
> Getting things done is cool.
One other point. Getting things done in Clojure and getting paid for
it is cool. One of the things I like about clojure is that its easy
interface to java dramatically increases its chances of industry
acceptance. New technologies, to be accepted, must solve a FELT
On Sep 6, 5:11 pm, Chouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There are important differences. As you say, there's no C-Clojure. Nor
> > is there (anymore) a .Net-Clojure.
>
> There may one day be a Clojure-for-JavaScript (Cl
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There are important differences. As you say, there's no C-Clojure. Nor
> is there (anymore) a .Net-Clojure.
There may one day be a Clojure-for-JavaScript (ClojureScript?), which
of course will suffer from just such problem
On Sep 6, 10:07 am, AlamedaMike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This article: http://blog.headius.com/2008/09/elephant.html
> by one of JRuby's core developers might be of interest to Clojure-
> minded people (CMPs -- a name I'd like to propose for members of our
> little niche of the world). He dis
This article: http://blog.headius.com/2008/09/elephant.html
by one of JRuby's core developers might be of interest to Clojure-
minded people (CMPs -- a name I'd like to propose for members of our
little niche of the world). He discusses the guff that JRuby has been
getting from the CRuby folks. T
