Re: Clojure for beginners

2017-12-07 Thread Kendall Shaw
On 12/06/2017 02:59 PM, Clojure beginner wrote: Hi all I heard about Clojure a week ago and have a new assignment at work to learn, develope and deploy to production. I haven't developed in 2 years. Programming background is: mainframe and informatica. I have bought 5 books: and Clojure progra

Re: [ANN] A complete draft of "Elements of Clojure" is available

2018-03-17 Thread Kendall Shaw
It looks like I will learn a lot from that. Thank you. It seems like the trend is to do away with concepts and have nothing but examples, mostly outside of lisp and fp bookstore books, but it is a trend anyway. This is refreshing. On 03/16/2018 09:21 AM, Zach Tellman wrote: Almost exactly two

clojure as part of agnostic project

2016-02-22 Thread Kendall Shaw
Generally, I try to not make projects depend on a specific build environment. So, for example, a directory structure containing java file and configuration files can exist independent of the build environment. The reason being that the future is sometimes different from the past and in the futu

Re: How to go about 'proving' why dynamically typed languages are better.

2013-10-08 Thread Kendall Shaw
Some things that I see most of the time when I read debates about dynamic vs static are: 1. Statically defined types don't solve everything, so they are not useful. Some help is better than no help even if the help doesn't solve all of your problems. Yes, you should wash your hands before di

Compulsive over-optimization

2013-10-18 Thread Kendall Shaw
With clojure in particular, I am having trouble not rearranging my code to be what I think is more optimal in ways that seem probably not practical. I've noticed myself doing that when I'm newish to languages and apis. But, I go bonkers with clojure. Do you have any thoughts about how to avoid

Re: Compulsive over-optimization

2013-10-18 Thread Kendall Shaw
wrote: What kind of optimal do you compulsively rearrange for? Performance? Readability? Amusing terseness? On Oct 18, 2013 6:20 PM, "Kendall Shaw" <mailto:ks...@kendallshaw.com>> wrote: With clojure in particular, I am having trouble not rearranging my code to be w

Re: Compulsive over-optimization

2013-10-19 Thread Kendall Shaw
he future? Kendall On 10/19/2013 12:35 AM, Laurent PETIT wrote: Can you give a concrete example? Le samedi 19 octobre 2013, Kendall Shaw a écrit : With clojure in particular, I am having trouble not rearranging my code to be what I think is more optimal in ways that seem probably

Re: Compulsive over-optimization

2013-10-20 Thread Kendall Shaw
TIT wrote: Can you give a concrete example? Le samedi 19 octobre 2013, Kendall Shaw a écrit : With clojure in particular, I am having trouble not rearranging my code to be what I think is more optimal in ways that seem probably not practical. I've noticed myself doing that w

Re: Compulsive over-optimization

2013-10-22 Thread Kendall Shaw
Optimizing too much for readability, can't be well worth doing, I think. It's a contradiction in terms. Watching out for changes that make the code shorter instead of more readable seems like useful advice and maybe a sign that I am "optimizing" too much. I'm pretty sure I could figure out a wa

Re: emacs - how to wean me off the family of Java IDEs

2013-05-01 Thread Kendall Shaw
On 5/1/2013 5:46 PM, James Thornton wrote: ... Before I realized my bad habit, I would contort my left hand to hit "Ctrl Alt x" -- this feels awkward and if you do it enough times over the years the repetitive stress builds up. A better way is to use both hands. This may seem obvious to those