On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 5:17:15 PM UTC-5, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > > > > On Mar 24, 2017 5:05 PM, <piast...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > This did get me thinking though. If the community *did* want to score > highly > > on some of these metrics, what would those be? > > I'll be happy so long as Clojure is the popular choice for doing the > things where it's advantages should matter: machine learning, AI, NLP, > concurrent programming. > > It drives me crazy that Python is doing so well in all of the areas where > Clojure should be winning. There are such beautiful libraries for working > with vectors and matrices with Clojure, which should obviously help with > NLP, yet people use Python instead. Likewise, so much of machine learning > should be done as work in parallel, and Clojure makes that easy, yet Python > is preferred. Drives me crazy. > > > doesn't drive me mad, but it does puzzle ans annoy me. puzzle: why is it? > not sure, personally. > > > These last few years I've been at a lot of NLP startups, and the choice of > Python makes me sad. > > I thought that Python had a big head start. Is that incorrect?
OO is still dominant, overall, and FP requires a big transition. If you're a Java programmer, which is a more natural choice? Python or Clojure? Sure, Clojure is more closely tied to the JVM, but you don't write JVM code. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
