Fellow Clojurians, I just started my journey on Clojure less than a week ago. I learned LISP in 1997, never done enough real world work. I really like LISP but never had an opportunity to apply this in my professional career. I am working on CLISP for a couple of years ( only for my pleasure). I am doing Java programming for almost 13 years. Clojure is "the thing" I am looking for to blend my personal preference in my day job.
Thanks a lot Rich, for creating this wonderful platform, bringing Functional, LISP like language to JVM and Java. I hope Clojure will make people more productive, programming fun and move the world in the direction of IDEAL. Once again thank you very much, Rich Hickey On Mar 21, 12:16 am, Adrian Cuthbertson <adrian.cuthbert...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
