I'd like to add my thanks to Rich Hickey for Clojure as well. I started doing C/C++ multi-threaded programming back in '97 and have done some Java, Ruby, and Perl as well. Some time ago my opinion of Lisp(s) changed and I vowed to learn one someday but just didn't have the time or drive. Just a few weeks ago I decided to move a personal project I was working on from Flash (somehow I became a Flash/Flex developer a year ago) to Java (couldn't get the performance I wanted on Flash and didn't want to go to C/C+). That very day I saw an article reminding me of Clojure and I was off.
I've got the beta of the upcomming book, watched all of Rich's excellent Clojure presentations, and setup Emacs and began playing. The stars have aligned, I get to learn a Lisp, use the JVM's extensive libraries, and stay in my favorite editor (learned to love Emacs since I could take it everywhere when doing cross platform development). Only possible problem, if I continue digging it I'll pine to have a job using Clojure. --Robert On Mar 20, 12:26 pm, Rayne <disciplera...@gmail.com> wrote: > I Anthony Simpson, with the support of fellow Clojurists hereby > declare March 20th, the first day of spring, Rich Hickey appreciation > day! > > Rich Hickey has certainly done a lot for us, making this wonderful > language and continuing to take his time to work on it. He is > dedicated and he wants to bring Clojure along with it's users to > heights that Lisp has never been before. In just some 2 years, Rich > has gathered together a vibrant and large community of users and > contributors who believe in Clojure's future immensely . One such > contributor who believes in Clojure enough to write an entire book on > it! Clojure gains more attention and support everyday. > > I believe in the bright future that Rich Hickey believes exists for > Clojure. I believe that with this community, and with such a wonderful > creator as Rich Hickey, Clojure will achieve it's goals and meet the > destiny that Rich is writing for it. > > I thank you Rich Hicky for all your work on Clojure. I thank you for > all the time you've spent building this community and giving us one of > the most awesome languages that have existed. Thank you for caring > about us enough to listen to the community before making big changes, > I believe in Clojure and I will be here watching it evolve with you! > > If you would like to thank Rich Hickey for all he has done for us, you > can post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC > channel. :) > > March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day > > -Rayne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
