On Jul 17, 6:43 pm, javajosh <javaj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 8, 8:37 pm, Christian Marks <9fv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The moral of this story is: don't let anyone clip your wings. > > Well said. That is my take away too. It is surprising how to me how > much weight people give to the assertions of others, famous or not. In > truth, this human endeavor of programming (as all else) is really just > a series of experiments, some grander than others, some will succeed, > some fail, (and sometimes oscillate between success and failure over > time :)
I was responding to the idea that one should play around with Java for a few months before getting involved with Clojure. Spending months with a language whose idea of a type system is one in which the only operation on types is sub-classing sounds like a recipe for instantaneous profound boredom. Perhaps Java has improved its type system, but whatever it is, it isn't homotopy type theory (cf. http://homotopytypetheory.org/ ). ... > So that, Chris, is why out of 125 posts (or so) I wanted to respond to > yours, because you have done the experiment. Frankly, I'm not really > sure if it's a good idea or not to reimplement Java libraries like > Swing in Clojure, but I do know that we won't know unless someone > gives it a shot. > > -- Josh I didn't re-implement Swing--it was just a translation of a demo from a language I didn't know into another I didn't know, using a build system I didn't know. I did manage to learn more by doing several things at once, instead of plodding through one language at a time; e.g., I saw how to handle resources in Clojure in conjunction with Leiningen (cute name: the author seems to have been "bitten" by Ant). What I posted was a second iteration--I wasn't making use of doto, for or if-let at first, incidentally. CM -- 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
