Re: Questions about Clojure and Common Lisp

2009-04-02 Thread David Nolen
On Apr 1, 11:41 am, Chanwoo Yoo wrote: > Hello. Yesterday, I talked with a representative of a publisher about > a translation of Lisp books. There are books about Ruby, Lua, Erlang, > and Groovy in South Korea, but there is no book about Lisp except > SICP. So he is considering printing the fi

Re: Questions about Clojure and Common Lisp

2009-04-01 Thread Adrian Cuthbertson
I have used Java and Jsp for many years as the platform for my business offerings. All new development is now being done in Clojure - I am comfortable (nay, delighted) with it's stability and viability. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Jon Harrop wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 16:51:49 Jo

Re: Questions about Clojure and Common Lisp

2009-04-01 Thread Jon Harrop
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 16:51:49 Joshua Fox wrote: > > 3. Clojure can use Java libraries. Common Lisp can use C/C++ > > libraries. Is it possible to say Clojure has strong points to Common > > Lisp in the power of libraries? > > Accessing Java from Clojure is easier & more transparent than acce

Re: Questions about Clojure and Common Lisp

2009-04-01 Thread Joshua Fox
> 3. Clojure can use Java libraries. Common Lisp can use C/C++ > libraries. Is it possible to say Clojure has strong points to Common > Lisp in the power of libraries? Accessing Java from Clojure is easier & more transparent than accessing C from Common Lisp. Joshua On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:41 PM

Questions about Clojure and Common Lisp

2009-04-01 Thread Chanwoo Yoo
Hello. Yesterday, I talked with a representative of a publisher about a translation of Lisp books. There are books about Ruby, Lua, Erlang, and Groovy in South Korea, but there is no book about Lisp except SICP. So he is considering printing the first Lisp book in South Korea. We talked about 'Pro

Re: Questions about Clojure and Common Lisp

2009-04-01 Thread Jeffrey Straszheim
I can't give you any numbers on #2, but I have used both languages and there is no comparison. Groovy is freakishly slow. Clojure is relatively zippy. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Chanwoo Yoo wrote: > > Hello. Yesterday, I talked with a representative of a publisher about > a translation o