Clojure for largish web application?

2010-01-22 Thread cperkins
I've read that people have been able to use Clojure with some of the Java web servers. I am not familiar with any Java web servers or web frameworks and wonder if anyone who knows more about them can advise me. FWIW I'm also not familiar with load balancing or multi-server setups for web applicati

Re: The Kiln, an Evaulation Strategy for Insanely Complex Functions

2012-05-08 Thread cperkins
I like it. Kiln looks like it is automatically composing the request handler based mostly on a description of data types (*) provided and needed. Is that correct, more or less? It looks very useful. Using Common Lisp (not Clojure yet) I end up using a lot of macros when handling HTTP requests t

correctness / error checking for Clojure

2012-06-20 Thread cperkins
Awhile back I read a short essay by Olin Shivers (*) wherein he observed that static typing could help the compiler optimize code for the best performance, check the code for correctness/consistency and also provided a bit of documentation to the interface of a function. This one activity, sta