Thanks for the thoughts everyone, I'm having a read through that paper now. I'm still looking for some code to read because while what you are saying makes, I've done so much OOP my brain is having a hard time making the jump.
Also added it as an suggestion in this thread if anyone else is interested and wants to vote it up: http://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/atzz7/full_disclojure_i_need_topics/c0jeke6 Cheers Barry On Jan 26, 10:06 am, wlr <geeked...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I first came to Clojure I also tried to map everything to maps > > (counterpart of objects), hierarchies, relationships, etc. This design > > was the natural mechanism in my previous programming languages to > > express everything. After a while I noticed that this is probably not > > always the best way to define the domain in Clojure. Why should > > objects + hierarchies be the "only true thing"? > > > After playing around with clojureql I noticed how well the relational > > data model maps to a functional language. Processing lists (result > > sets), joining, filter, group by, etc. are ideas I found in both > > worlds. I am currently working on a toy project where I "declared" the > > relational model as my dominant way to express data, persistent as > > well as in-memory. So far I can say that it is working seamlessly. > > Everything feels natural. The relational model is very well understood > > and it was quite easy for me think in this model during coding as > > well. Also, I was quite happy that I did not need to work with deep > > hierarchies, etc. in a dynamic language anymore. Using the relational > > model also gave me the SQL-DDL as an expressive way to define my data > > schemes, types, etc. > > A relevant paper Rich brought to the attention of the Clojure > community is: > > http://web.mac.com/ben_moseley/frp/paper-v1_01.pdf -- 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
