I wrote my first program in Fortran in 1975. Since then I've worked in Assember, Jcl, Rexx, Lisp 370, C, C++, VB (the low-light of my career), and a host of scripting/macro tools. I started with Java in 1998 and my own business in 2002 (web apps and backends with Java/Jsp/Js). I became disillusioned with Java in 2006 and embarked on trying to find a new platform that would take my business into the future with dramatically improved development productivites. I explored and tried D, perl, python, C again (a back to basics moment), Ruby, SISC, CL, Haskell, CAML, Erlang. None of these met my (admittedly lofty) ambitions. The I found Scala. Mabye this would be it. It would integrate with my Java legacy stuff, had good functional and looked like the NBT. After 6 month's of learning/dabbling I started using it in business. Then a reasonably complex application, a real deadline and Scala's type system made me want to throw it all out and go back to C again.
And then I found Clojure. That was 6 months ago. My quest for the grail has been fulfilled. Thank you, thank you, Rich. And the great community. However long I've got left as a programmer, I can now just get on and do those many, many things I've always wanted to do but been perpetually frustrated by the (in-)capabilities of the language I've been working in. At last. Adrian. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
