I'm no expert but I love to argue, so this is what I would say: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@ocricket.com>wrote: > > > Their concerns are thus: > > 1. How do you get Clojure programmers? Lisp is not for the faint hearted.
There has been a lot of re-newed interest in lisp over the past couple years. > > > 2. What about the performance of Clojure? Is it fast? >From what I've heard and seen it is as fast as java itself in some cases because it sits natively on-top of the jvm 3. People who want to use this are more academically inclined and are > not practical. This will make the whole project fail. Rich Hicky, is a self described "practitioner" not an academic, and I think it is because of this that clojure is at its heart a very pragmatic language (for example: clojure is functional but doesn't enforce strict purity) and not just another intelectual exercise. I'm not trying to knock Simon Peyton Jones (the academic behind Haskel, the man is undoubtedly a genious), I'm simply saying clojure comes from a different angle. The reasons to chose clojure: 1. functional languages are the future, in a few years absolutely everything (even cellphones) will be multicore 2. sits on the jvm, a robust and open platform with access to thousands of librarys 3. a lisp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
