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

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