Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-29 Thread Matt Revelle
On Jun 26, 2:40 pm, Raoul Duke wrote: > > We are hiring; but do you live in Mumbai, India? :) > > no, but i do know some folks around there (although they are all happy > where they are, as far as i know). do you allow telecommuting from > usa? ;-) > > best of luck with the venture. I'm looking

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-29 Thread evins.mi...@gmail.com
On Jun 25, 12:59 am, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: > Their concerns are thus: > > 1. How do you get Clojure programmers? Lisp is not for the faint hearted. You advertise for programmers and include Clojure, Lisp, Java, and functional programming on the roster of desirable skills. Lisp hackers wa

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-26 Thread fft1976
On Jun 24, 11:38 pm, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > I'd reply that you can always fall back to Java for time-critical   > stuff. Is this really relevant? You may fall back to Java for some of your procedure implementations, but your data structures that they need to work on would be the dynamically typ

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-25 Thread cody
On Jun 25, 12:58 pm, Four of Seventeen wrote: > So, Java is academic and impractical? Tell that to all the web server > admins deploying it routinely on their servers! The fact that Sun has managed to convince a lot of people that gobs of xml and multiple competing build systems are a good id

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-25 Thread Daniel Lyons
On Jun 25, 2009, at 12:39 PM, CuppoJava wrote: > > I enjoyed Daniel Lyons post there. I recognize some Ayn Rand ideas > there. Ever read Atlas Shrugged perchance? =) Thanks! Fountainhead yes, Atlas Shrugged no, actually. :) But my suggestions there come from my (limited) experience. She's a f

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-25 Thread CuppoJava
I enjoyed Daniel Lyons post there. I recognize some Ayn Rand ideas there. Ever read Atlas Shrugged perchance? =) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clo

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-25 Thread Four of Seventeen
On Jun 25, 12:14 pm, cody wrote: > On Jun 25, 8:39 am, Berlin Brown wrote: > > > This is my main point: One thing that Clojure is NOT.  It is not > > limited by the limitations of the Java programming language. > > It may not be limited by the java _language_, but it is limited by the > java _pl

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-25 Thread cody
On Jun 25, 8:39 am, Berlin Brown wrote: > This is my main point: One thing that Clojure is NOT.  It is not > limited by the limitations of the Java programming language. > It may not be limited by the java _language_, but it is limited by the java _platform_. Given the OP's question about aca

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-25 Thread Berlin Brown
On Jun 25, 9:39 am, Berlin Brown wrote: > On Jun 25, 9:31 am, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:29:24 +0530 > > > Baishampayan Ghose wrote: > > > > Their concerns are thus: > > > > 1. How do you get Clojure programmers? Lisp is not for the faint > > > hearted. > > > You c

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-25 Thread Berlin Brown
On Jun 25, 9:31 am, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:29:24 +0530 > > Baishampayan Ghose wrote: > > > Their concerns are thus: > > > 1. How do you get Clojure programmers? Lisp is not for the faint > > hearted. > > You can always ask on this list. I'd guess that at any given point

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-25 Thread Alan Busby
Make them watch the following video. http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61 Although the video isn't about Clojure, I think most of the points regarding ML are true of Clojure as well. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Timothy Pratley wrote: > > > 1. How do you get Clojure programmers? Lisp is

Re: Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-24 Thread Timothy Pratley
> 1. How do you get Clojure programmers? Lisp is not for the faint hearted. Clojure is extremely easy to learn compared to 'Lisp': You get collection based functions that apply other functions map/ reduce/filter You get simple powerful data structures hashmaps sets vectors lists You get atomic, t